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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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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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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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.
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Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today’s business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.
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Experience is always seeking for special literary forms in which its various aspects can find their most adequate expression; and there are many of these aspects which are best rendered in a fragmentary fashion, because they are themselves fragments of experience, gleams and flashes of light, rather than the steady glow of a larger illumination.
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The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. … With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
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Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
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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.
