Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

Antonio Tabucchi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: September 24, 1943 - March 25, 2012

Topics

LiveMirrorPeopleFaceLookChoice

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

Jessi Colter

MusicEndGivingCreatingAlways

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

Steve Wynn

PeopleSafetyFlyVoiceYouBack

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

Roald Dahl

GodMenPracticePreachOne Thing

Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me.

Johnny Flynn

MeWantActorBecomeMoreAlways

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

Bruno Mars

StoryStairsKnowNeverTwoUp

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

Ava Gardner

MistakePeopleThinkingSexyWrong

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

Allan Sloan

FamilySomeoneYouSayWillWay

How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?

Peter Sis

LoveSomeoneYouNeverVisualize

No one remembers who came fourth.

Paula Radcliffe

WhoFourthCameRemembers

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

Noel Coward

SickLooksSheBeenJustMona

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.

Leonard Orr

MindFeelEnoughRememberYouBirth

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

Kevin O'Leary

MeResearchYouLookKnowingRight

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