Sergio Leone Quotes
When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
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Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.
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President George Bush made the U.S. absolutely the leader, between its own PEPFAR, and it's been by far the biggest Global Fund donor. That's a legacy.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
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If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.
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When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.
