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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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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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.
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Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'
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The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.
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Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
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Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.
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It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.
