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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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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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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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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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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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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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.
