Sergio Leone Quotes

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

Sergio Leone

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• Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Together
  • Bring
  • Heal

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Single

• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • World
  • History

• Thirteen years I took on this last book.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Book
  • Years
  • Last

• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Think
  • New York

• The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Daydreamer

• If it's boring, then it's tiring.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Boring
  • Then
  • Tiring

• Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Remember

• Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Children
  • Generosity

• The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Suffering

• The Olympics are an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • History
  • True

• I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Up
  • Book
  • Black

• The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

  

  Dino De Laurentiis
  • Great
  • Drama

• I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Like
  • Never
  • Something

• I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Responsibility
  • Moral
  • Wise

• Nobody interviewed Kitty Potter about what she wore. I would have loved to hear what she would have said about some of this stuff.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • She

• You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Reading
  • Cinema