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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For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.
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I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.
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That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them.
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The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
