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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We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
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While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.
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I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.
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What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.
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Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
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Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
