Elena Ferrante Quotes
Realized that on his lips was a mute laugh that I had never seen before. It became him, the expression of a sympathetic man who wishes to show that he knows what’s what.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.
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'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
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I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.
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Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
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In sorrow I am sending a feeble voice, O Six Powers of the World. Hear me in my sorrow, for I may never call again. O make my people live!
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.
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Realized that on his lips was a mute laugh that I had never seen before. It became him, the expression of a sympathetic man who wishes to show that he knows what’s what.
