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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."
"I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie."
"Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble."
"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
"Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom."
"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face."
"It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion."
"Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him."
"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."
"The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved."
"I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test."
"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you."
"Beauty is boring because it is predictable."
"Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides."
"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
"Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible."
"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
"I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."
"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul."
"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you."
"Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems."
"Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life."
"Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing."
"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
"God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves."
"Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind."
"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
"My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength."
"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
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