John Elkann Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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i see all of u. i hear all of u. i never want to let any of you down. i love u. and..thank u.
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To be honest, when I was growing up - I think it's because of Kate Winslet and 'Titanic' - I always wanted to do period.
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We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.
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