Ennio Morricone Quotes

Music needs room to breathe.

Ennio Morricone

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Intelligent
  • Try

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Live
  • Can
  • Scenes

• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  

  Larry King
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Traffic

• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Long
  • Doing

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Thing

• When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Live
  • Amazing
  • Weather

• In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • World
  • Education

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Doing
  • Will
  • Shall

• It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Emotional
  • Enough

• Love is a credulous thing.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Thing

• Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!

  

  Vance Havner
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Service

• I remember when I got pregnant, I had several peers of mine, women, who said to me, 'Now that you're pregnant, you're probably gonna give up the music thing, right?' I was like, 'I'm not crippled. I'm just having a baby.'

  

  Margo Price
  • Up
  • Music
  • Women

• I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

  

  China Chow

• To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

  

  Geoffrey Boycott
  • Car
  • Jump

• Movement came out while we were away. The reviews were OK, and though I grew to like it more and more as the years went by, we weren’t especially happy with it at the time. When we listened to the finished product what we heard was the sound of a band whose producer had lost faith. You could hear it. The album had ended up sounding like a Joy Division album with New Order vocals.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Happy
  • Band
  • Movement

• Music needs room to breathe.

  

  Ennio Morricone
  • Music
  • Breathe