"We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression."

-- Dario Fo

#Italian Quotes #Expression Quotes #Church Quotes

“Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.”
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination...”
“I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term.”
“Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.”
“Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.”
“Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.”
“It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people ...”

Source : Jill Paton Walsh (2007). “A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery”, p.11, Macmillan

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