Claudia Cardinale Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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As women, we're trying to be the best mothers and partners and have careers. We're trying to do so much. It's okay to say to other women, 'How do you do this?' Because I honestly don't know. The more we are honest, the more you realize we're all just trying to figure this out.
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There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.
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I never wanted to be on a pedestal.
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It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.
