Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.
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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
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I look back and think I'm a smart person! What the hell was I thinking?
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I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.
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If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.
