Italian Quotes
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He Giovanni Ardini, Italian master-carver opened up a new vista for me of the quality of form, light, and colour contained in the Mediterranean conception of carving.
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
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Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
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It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
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I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.
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Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.
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There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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The cooking standards for Italian food are less demanding than for French. All you need are some fried mozzarella and five pastas, and you're in business.
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My Roman girlfriend translates bits from Italian into English. It is sublime.
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I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.
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The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.
