Luchino Visconti Quotes
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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We all get self-centered.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.
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I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.
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When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.
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I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
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Much rain wears the marble.
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It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
