Oriana Fallaci Quotes
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
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The system of scholastic disputations encouraged in the Universities of the middle ages had unfortunately trained men to habits of indefinite argumentation, and they often preferred absurd and extravagant propositions, because greater skill was required to maintain them; the end and object of such intellectual combats being victory and not truth.
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With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
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I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
