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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Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
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Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture
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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.