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 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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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
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People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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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.
