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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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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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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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.
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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
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There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it.
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I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.
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People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
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I brings the ruckus to the ladies.
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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.
