"A man like Verdi must write like Verdi."

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Source : Giuseppe Verdi (2016). “Messa da Requiem: Critical Edition Study Score”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

Giuseppe Verdi

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“It was on Long John's show that I heard Orfeo Angelucci being interviewed. In other words, the whole thing about the green globes on the top of a car bumper and the voice coming out, you know, and then this beautiful lady.... So he went through the whole number, what you read in his book, that kind of stuff. A whole raft of things.”
“I'm not able to completely escape naturalism. It's very difficult to escape from naturalism without being too dry. That's what I try to do in my cinema - escape naturalism and do films that are, at the same time, realistic but have a lot of fantasy. It's very difficult in cinema to get away from what life is about, from real life. The way the actors work has to be realistic - you can't do Baroque acting - so it's very complicated. And, we're human beings, so we're not perfect. I'm trying to do something different.”
“God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.”

Source : Ralph Hodgson, “Reason Has Moons”
“There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. â€”MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE”
“He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2004). “Postcards from No Man's Land”
“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.”
“But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.”

Source : "The Bliss of Being Sheryl Lee / The career of `Twin Peaks' ' famous corpse has come alive on screen". Interview with Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 1997.
“So take a new approach as to how you feel emotions. It's not about the right emotion or the wrong emotion; it's about honoring the way that you're feeling. We tend to think that being sensitive is a weakness, but it really gives us an ability to be compassionate and to appreciate so many things in the world.”

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