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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature."
"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism."
"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
"After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world."
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
"And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan."
"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
"There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists."
"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
"When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love."
"I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us."
"Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile."
"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul."
"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."
"When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means."
"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
"It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new."
"And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite."
"The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs."
"To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio."
"Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while."
"My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant."
"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."
"The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy."
"We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs."
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
"It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!"
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