Loretta Napoleoni Quotes
I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.
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I am just trying to keep it real.
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President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.
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Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.
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And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
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I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.
