Andrea Bocelli Quotes
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
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No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
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All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
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As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
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I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
