- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Clerk
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes at my performances, I see Peruvian flags in the audience. I've never seen, when an Italian sings, people with Italian flags. But with Peru, it's different: because there are not many famous people, they really celebrate the ones they have.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I concentrated on Rossini when I began, and I never really felt any competition. I sang in the best houses, and I believed I was always a first choice. I was lucky in a way - I never felt there was someone else who was getting the roles in another theatre and that we were competing.
- Feign
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me.
- Nov 07, 2020