"My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978."

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Source : "Benigni interviewed by Adrian Wootton". Interview with Adrian Wootton, November 7, 1998.

Roberto Benigni

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Cinema Quotes

“I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them.”

Source : "10 quotes from football stars past and present that further define the greatness of Lionel Messi" by Alex Richards, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2017.
“Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,”

Source : "The Confession: City business has been eclipsed by Rob Ford's attempt to avoid embarrassment". www.ctvnews.ca. November 9, 2013.
“Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.”

Source : Alice A. Bailey, Djwhal Khul (1955). “Discipleship in the New Age Vol II”, p.62, Lucis Publishing Companies
“When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.”
“The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.”
“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
“You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up,”
“My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.”

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