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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other."
"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."
"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
"I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect."
"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."
"When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules."
"I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia."
"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."
"If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature.The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom."
"I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh."
"But chance has a taste for conspiracy."
"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."
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do."
"Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing."
"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."
"Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace."
"I live quietly at home among my family and friends."
"Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison."
"The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."
"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."
"Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you."
"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."
"That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter."
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."
"There is no certainty; there is only adventure."
"For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign."
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