Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it.
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A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
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The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.
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Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.
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Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we could have spared ourselves all kinds of suffering. More recently it's been turned into a comedic trope. As we go forward, tragedy plus time equals comedy...
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I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
