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.
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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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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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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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Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
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I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.
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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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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.
