Federico Fellini Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
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Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
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Policing is one of those jobs that will always revolve around a meatspace hub, if only because you can’t build a cellblock in cyberspace.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
