- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
More Quotes
Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got recognized more by little sweet Italian fans in six days than I've ever been recognized in L.A. in six years.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have become a person who can focus more on love.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.
- Feasible
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020