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Quotes by Italian Authors
"I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course."
"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."
"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."
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
"A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific."
"And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight."
"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future."
"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."
"In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves."
"Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life."
"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace."
"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
"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."
"Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know."
"I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more."
"The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life."
"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient."
"Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.”
"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!"
"How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!"
"Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places."
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
"I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing."
"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination."
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
"The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences."
"All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge."
"What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art."
"Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement."
"Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects."
"It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner."
"Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression."
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