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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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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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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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.
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'Tis strange with how much power and prideThe softness is of love allied;How much of power to force the breastTo be in outward show at rest,-How much of pride that never eyeMay look upon its agony!Ah! little will the lip revealOf all the burning heart can feel.
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.
