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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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"The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell."

"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."
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