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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."
"Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world."
"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."
"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."
"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."
"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do."
"Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed."
"A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either."
"I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life."
"We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved."
"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."
"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
"Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing."
"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."
"And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years."
"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."
"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."
"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."
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