Paolo Sorrentino Quotes
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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If somebody goes, 'You should go to 135,' my heart's just not into it.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.
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It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
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There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
