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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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
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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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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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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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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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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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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.
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After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.
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Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
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How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
