Oriana Fallaci Quotes
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.
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Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.
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You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
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What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
