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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As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
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That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
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Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
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I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
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Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.
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Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
