Sergio Leone Quotes
Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
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When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.
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I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.
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I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don't know them, they want me home by 9 P.M. If I have work, then I don't have a deadline. I don't argue with them. That's how I have been raised, and I'm happy with it.
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Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.
