Marco Zanini Quotes
Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
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Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
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When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.
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All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.
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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.
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Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.
