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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Federico Fellini

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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.
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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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I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.
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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
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The beauty of life are women, no one loves them as much as me. I adore them all, the ugly, the beautiful, the cold, the sexy and especially those that are from cinema material, shadow and light.
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You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
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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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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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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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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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The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
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According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.
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Nothing is more honest than a dream.
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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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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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