Marcello Mastroianni Quotes
They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.
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They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!
