Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
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If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.
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The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
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And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
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If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
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I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.
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You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.
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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
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Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
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I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.
