Ennio Morricone Quotes
Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
Quotes to Explore
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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I'm not politically correct.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn't get any good parts, so I'm blessed.
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
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Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
