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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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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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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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 -
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
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When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
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As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.
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When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had no idea about James Dean or the Beatles or Charlie Chaplin, modern music or modern cinema.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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My sister is my biggest Broadway hero.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
