Luchino Visconti Quotes

I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting is Luis Bunuel. He's a very great director.

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

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• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

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• It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

  

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• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

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• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

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• I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

  

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• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

  

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• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

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• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

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• Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

  

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• I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

  

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• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

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• Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

  

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• Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

  

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• I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

  

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• As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.

  

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• Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

  

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• When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.

  

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• Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

  

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• I just love playing good guys.

  

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• The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.

  

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• Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have.

  

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• I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting is Luis Bunuel. He's a very great director.

  

  Luchino Visconti
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