Roberto Cavalli Quotes
The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.
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I've always loved a challenge.
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I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
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I am so proud of what I've achieved personally, but without the lads around me, nothing would have been possible.
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I don't think capitalism can survive.
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The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.
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And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.
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One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
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The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
