Federico Fellini Quotes

In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.

Federico Fellini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: January 20, 1920 - October 31, 1993

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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Jimmy Breslin

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A Yorkshire coal mine during the war was my first workplace. I was 18, and when I was called up, I thought I'd go into the RAF. But my number got pulled out of Ernest Bevin's hat, and I went down the pit as a Bevin boy to replace all the able-bodied miners who went to war.

Jimmy Savile

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Any time there is a new idea, it can take some time for policy to catch up to it.

Joe Gebbia

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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

Anna Quindlen

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I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Resilient people recognize that no matter how bad the circumstances are, their situation could always be worse. They don't allow themselves to exaggerate how terrible their problems are, and they don't run around predicting how much worse things are going to get. Instead, they view failure with an accurate perspective.

Amy Morin

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Let's put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It's still there. It's still fighting.

Troy Dumais

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You don't come around to the pit lane every mile; when you leave on a rally, you're gone for 500 miles in certain stages. You've got to work on your own car and fix it. It's a logistical nightmare, and it really challenges me.

Robby Gordon

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In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

Rob Lowe

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I understand Twitter much more than I understand Tumblr.

Rowan Blanchard

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Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Louis L'Amour

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I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.

Ciaran Hinds

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