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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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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Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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What happens when I'm making a new album is I try not to listen to music that's coming out at the time. I turn off the radio and don't read any music blogs, because I tend to get really distracted by new music. When I hear it, I think, "Should I be doing that?"
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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.
