Satyajit Ray Quotes
Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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Social media is basically the entire reason I have a career right now. Like everything, my readership for 'Nimona' came because I was active on Tumblr.
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Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.
