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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."
"The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way."
"There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising."
"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."
"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."
"It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life."
"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."
"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."
"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan."
"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."
"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart."
"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature."
"Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum."
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
"My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family."
"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."
"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
"I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce."
"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."
"Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks."
"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."
"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
"My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles."
"When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice."
"So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time."
"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
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