- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody remembers 'Just Shoot Me,' and I'm very proud of that. It's still on TV, and people still catch it and laugh about it, and I personally have wonderful, wonderful memories working with those people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the worst nightmare for me as prime minister but also for the country, of course.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.
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- Nov 07, 2020