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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For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
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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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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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The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.
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Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.
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The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.
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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.
