Paolo Sorrentino Quotes
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.
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Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
