Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
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Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.
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I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.
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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
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The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
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I'm working my way toward divinity.
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I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
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It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!
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Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.
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Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
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I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.
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The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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The fact that the academy is seen as being so important to the cultural conversation is a big compliment.
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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
