Ennio Morricone Quotes
I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.
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To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
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The end of desire is the end of sorrow.
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Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved nursing, but I loved writing more.
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I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it'll be those cluster things - it's a bit random - and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too much in case I get a bad belly... and jelly just before I go on for a bit of energy!
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I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
