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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
Federico Fellini
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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.
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Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.
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Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.
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I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.
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What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.
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Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.
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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
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All art is autobiographical.
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As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
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