Pier Paolo Pasolini Quotes
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
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To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
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We are all trying to achieve our dreams.
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If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?
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Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
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We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
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You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.
