Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: March 16, 1940

Topics

YouNothingMoreNeedAlwaysOut

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Jeffrey Tate

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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

John Oates

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When I was young, you went to school, dealt with your friends and drama, went home, did your homework, went to bed, and started over the next day. But that social interaction that happens at school doesn't end now - it goes until the minute you go to bed and starts again when you wake up.

Michael Imperioli

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Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.

Amity Gaige

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There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.

Sue Gardner

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The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.

Steve-O

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Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

Steven Pinker

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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Rosa Luxemburg

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What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.

Roy Harper

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New Year's Eve is not about having a big party for me. It's a time of reflection, and I often go on spiritual retreats.

Monique Roffey

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I personally am not conscious of my accent.

Jared Diamond

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At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

Dennis Hastert

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