Monica Vitti Quotes
I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.
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I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.
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You guys are trying to stop Musial in 15 minutes while the National League ain’t stopped him in 15 years.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.
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The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! [...] The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government!
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Equal opportunity does not come from tolerance; it comes from acceptance.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way.
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I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.
