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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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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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 don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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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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I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
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The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.
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Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.
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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.
