Marcello Mastroianni Quotes
Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
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Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'
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For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.
