Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.
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People take things so seriously.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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People trash talk me.
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We are all terminal.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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Some people will talk about how Afghanistan has improved, but they're really just talking about the cities. In the countryside where the war has been fought, it's really not that much better than it was in 2001.
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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.
