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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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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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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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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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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I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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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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I hate when people say, 'Well, this is unfair for the underdog.' Well, the underdog should try harder.
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Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
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I figured I'd discuss my views outside of partying. I went a bit deeper, and the music is a bit more mature.
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Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
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Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.
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The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
