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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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.
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The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.
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There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
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All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
