Luchino Visconti Quotes
I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.
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I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
