Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers? Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.
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I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.
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'By god', says he, 'I think the Devil shits Dutchmen'
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Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
