Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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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.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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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.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.
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I will only talk about my work. I have always stayed away from commenting on my personal life, and that remains unchanged.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
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The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
