Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
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When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
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Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.
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I wish I had more time to read.
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Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.
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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
