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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."

"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

"Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all."

"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
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