Ludovico Ariosto Quotes
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
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I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
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I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
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In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
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I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.
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I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.
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Nobody has any security in loving me.
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I think, you know, if you're young - even if you're old, it doesn't matter how old you are - but if you find something that you really want to try, just give it a try.
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Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
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Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.
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Che chi ne l'acqua sta fin'alla golaBen'e ostinato se merce non grida.
