Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I don't feel closeted.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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I'm drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I'm meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.
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A mature science is governed by a single paradigm.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
