Italian Quotes - Page 19

• Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who speak Italian or Spanish to each other. It's been helpful to me to study and try to emulate that in that way.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Farewell, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.

  Maurice Sendak

  Two, Opera, Facts

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

  Mario Batali

  Book, Cooking, Next

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• I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

  Woody Allen

  Character, Fictional Character, Closest

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• An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

  Indro Montanelli

  Contradiction, Term, University

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• In the past, people couldn't place me. They thought that I was Danish or English or French. They never got that I am Italian. I'm not typical, maybe because my visual education was very mixed. There was a lot of London in my aesthetic: The Face, i-D, British music, and a lot of British fashion . . . But I really enjoy this contrast.

  Italo Zucchelli

  Fashion, Past, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Style, Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• An Italian piazza was my vision - a place where people would come and meet, see an exhibition, browse through books, have a drink, eat, rest, shop. Even today, the best compliment is when someone tells me that they were having a difficult day, and when they came here, they felt better.

  Carla Sozzani

  Book, People, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Gay, People, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I was immediately impressed by the classic northern Italian architecture that was mixed with futuristic ultra-modern buildings. The classic architecture gave it the heft of old wisdom while the modernistic look inspired hope for the future.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Spring, School, Ucla

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.

  Vittorio Gassman

  Real, Needs, Actors

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• I eat like a kid. I like Chief Boyardee. Their Ravioli, but they have some stuff I've never seen in the real Italian food world. You ever been in a nice Italian restaurant? Hi how are you? Ummm id like to start with a nice bottle of Chanti and a couple of Caesar Salads and umm I'm going to have the Beef a'ronni. And some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the lady.

  Brian Regan

  Couple, Teenage, Nice

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• Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany is desperate. It must maintain its standard of living. It can only do that with exports and Deutsche Bank is very exposed to Italian debt. But so is the rest of Europe.

  George Friedman

  Europe, Germany, Banking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, "How would you like to go to Italy and Spain and do an Italian/Spanish/German co-production with an Italian director who's only directed one movie?" It wasn't like I was going there to be with Federico Fellini. But something was there, and I thought, Well, I loved this story when it was told by Akira Kurosawa; maybe this is a good idea. That's an instinctive moment. A Fistful of Dollars was made.

  Clint Eastwood

  Moments

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• At the first meeting I had with the (Italian) bishops in May 2013, one of the three things I said was: with the Italian government you're on your own. Because the pope is for everybody and he can't insert himself in the specific internal politics of a country. This is not the role of the pope, right?

  Pope Francis

  Country, Government, Three

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Our girl's going to Capri for fun. We've got an Italian island vibe.

  Christian Siriano

  Girl, Fun, Islands

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.

  Al Pacino

  Talking, Years, People

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

  Al Pacino

  Emotion, Tradition, Violent

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• Albania was a very isolated country, politically, economically, and culturally. Our only connection to the world was through a radio program called Voice of America, and through the Italian television waves, which we caught illegally through primitive, improvised antennas. The only way to escape from reality was reading books.

  Luljeta Lleshanaku

  Country, Book, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's this one photograph of guy I know named Simon. The way he's standing, the background, the way his tie's flipping in the wind-it looks good in the small version, but in the big version, he looks like some kind of Italian fashion superhero or something. Like if the fashion police couldn't handle it, they'd call Simon, wearing a big S on his chest for some kind of fashion superhero.

  Scott Schuman

  Fashion, Superhero, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

  David Sedaris

  Fine, Sigh, Response

  David Sedaris (2013). “Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

  Peter Ustinov

  Blood, Veins

  "Milestones" by Joanna Bake, content.time.com. April 5, 2004.

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• Retailing has become fiercely competitive. Today there are many large global fashion companies who have opened up mono-brand stores in major cities around the world. When I first opened my boutique in New York, in 1985, there were almost no other European luxury brands present with their own stores. Now Fifth Avenue is packed with huge stores from major Italian and French labels.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, World, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make "Fistful of Dollars" a big article came out that said, "Italian Westerns are finished." I said, "Swell." Then, of course, the film came out, and it did something. I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

  Clint Eastwood

  Remember, Film, Instinct

  Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. November 6, 2011.

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• I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could actually see the new kung fu movie or the new blaxploitation movie or the new horror film or whatever. And then there was also, if you went just a little further away, there was actually a little art house cinema. So I could actually see, you know, French movies or Italian movies, when they came out.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Ghetto, House

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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