Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.
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I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
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Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
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I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
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I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
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Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
