Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
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That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
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Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
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We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
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Coming out of the 2016 election, there was a few things that became really clear. One, that black people deserve to have vehicles that represent the breadth of our interests. Two, that we really need to do a better job of being able to communicate what conditions and experiences our communities are facing.
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My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
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We're so specialized now in our entertainment. It's nice to do a show where you're really circling back to this idea of, 'Couldn't there be a show the whole family can watch together?'
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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
