Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
J. Michael Bishop
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
Harold Prince
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Karen DeCrow
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Octavio Paz
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
Yo-Yo Ma
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
Laura Leighton
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
Zach Galligan
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
Idina Menzel
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
Omari Hardwick
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
Zaha Hadid
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
Karl Abraham
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
Barry Diller
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
Edmund Hillary
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A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
Ian Williams Battles
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. Applegate
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
Zendaya
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I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
David Simon
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To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.
Kris Kristofferson
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Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
Lionel Hampton
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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton
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Acting's a job. I act to fill the fridge.
Art Malik
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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
Antonio Tabucchi