Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
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Even in the tough times, He's still a good God.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.
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It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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Only God singing this song of you... makes true light... somehow possible.
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And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
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The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.
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Whate'erI may have been, or am, doth rest betweenHeaven and myself; I shall not choose a mortalTo be my mediator.
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Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being
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I brought my sons into the business to extend my working life, so I could keep my hand in the business.
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You have to practice until you die.
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Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
