Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.
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But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
