Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.
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Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.
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If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
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I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
