Anna Magnani Quotes
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.
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I have perfected the art of the mean song to make me feel like I have a backbone.
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Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.
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Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.
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Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
