Federico Fellini Quotes
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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Music is about the performance.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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The body was born and it will die. But for the soul there is no death. It is like the betel-nut. When the nut is ripe it does not stick to the shell. But when it is green it is difficult to separate it from the shell. After realizing God, one does not identify oneself any more with the body. Then one knows that body and soul are two different things.
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Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.
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Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.
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Fate is written in the face.
