Sergio Leone Quotes
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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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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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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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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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I wanna live.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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I love my work. It's been good to me.
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I don't talk soft, that's that other guy.
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If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation.
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Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.
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I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
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I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.
