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"When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible."

"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."

"I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night."

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

"I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up."

"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"
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"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."

"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."

"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."

"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
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