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The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

Federico Fellini

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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
Comics Artist
Director
Film Director
Satirist
Screenwriter
Writer
Frederico Fellini
Fellas
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Imagination
Everything
Picture
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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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According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.
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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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Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
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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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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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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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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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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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Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.
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