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Quotes by Italian Authors
"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."
"Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well."
"Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop."
"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."
"It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself."
"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."
"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."
"I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true."
"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
"What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art."
"Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre a grelha, para as nuvens, ou para a correnteza da água, descobrindo, assim, coisas maravilhosas. O gênio do pintor há-de se apossar de todas essas coisas para criar composições diversas: luta de homens e de animais, paisagens, monstros, demônios e outras coisas fantásticas. Tudo, enfim, servirá para engrandecer o artista."
"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us a Secret."
"Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes."
"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."
"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same."
"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."
"But chance has a taste for conspiracy."
"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
"To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them."
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that."
"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive."
"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."
"In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm."
"The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude."
"If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good."
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