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Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beautiful Best World Language Dry

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

Life Funny Me Feel Sometimes Living

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.

Funny Plan Week Play Classmates Out

I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' every night?' I said, 'Oh my God if I have to sing these songs, if I have to sing 'I Can't Stop Loving You' one more night, I'm going to fall out.' Of course, I was young and I didn't understand.

God Mind Night Remember You Fall

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

Me Book Want Next Audience Out

Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.

Knowledge Courage Fate Decide Civic

The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You can't do smoky ballads for 50 minutes in a concert. It's a different animal.

Animal You Concert Wonderful Things

Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.

Trust Me Potential Enough Seriously

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

Work Yourself Game You Own Bring

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'

Me Weird Television Said Write Him

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

I Am Saying Problem You Know Never

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Talent Battle Clever Existence Punch

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Truth Society Selfish Busy Think

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