Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.
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If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
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I don't like to discuss my investments.
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Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.
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My father was a picture of courage in terms of his war service and strength, and yet in his decline, I learned primarily negative lessons. I learned what not to do.
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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
