Paolo Sorrentino Quotes
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.
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The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov
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I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can't underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days.
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Probably my biggest challenge is not eating all the food that I want to eat sometimes.
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One with the law is a majority.
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If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.
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On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but on Achilles' Heel I would just start writing and try to let the song and my sub-conscience determine the direction. which is a goofy way of saying I tried not to decide before hand what the song and or the characters would do and be like.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
