Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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Writers are so important.
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Ἐλαφρὸν ὅστις πημάτων ἔξω πόδαἔχει παραινεῖν νουθετεῖν τε τοὺς κακῶςπράσσοντας.
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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
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Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
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Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.
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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
