"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."

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Antonio Tabucchi

#People Quotes #Contradiction Quotes

“Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.”
“When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.”
“If I am not working, I won't wear makeup and I will wear flats.”
“Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.”
“I think for me, I had a long-standing desire to orchestrate the sunrise, and never came up with the right thing on piano. So at a certain moment, I had the revelation that the whole thing would be electronic, not traditional acoustic.”

Source : "Orchestrating The Sunrise: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani Interviewed". Interview with Danny Riley, thequietus.com. September 13, 2016.
“The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books
“It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself as Imperium, and it is also a mistake to want to build the Imperium on the basis of economic, military, industrial or even 'intellectual' or nationalist factors. The Imperium, according to the primordial conception rooted in Tradition, is something transcendent, and it can only be attained by those who have the power to transcend the lives of petty men and their appetites, their sentimentalisms, their national prides, their 'values', and their phobias.”
“I think that Americans are very grateful to the Bush family for their public service.”

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