Sergio Leone Quotes
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
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My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
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Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.
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I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
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He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.
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I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.