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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.
Federico Fellini
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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
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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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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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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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No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.
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