Pier Paolo Pasolini Quotes
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
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If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
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I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
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Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.
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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
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Continue to study and learn new skills.
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Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.
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I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
