Quote by Luigi Barzini
To put up a show is to face lifes injustices with one of the few w

To put up a show is to face lifes injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. – Luigi Barzini

Other quotes by Luigi Barzini

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the worlds cuisines, past and present, was available on request. – Luigi Barzini

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Libraries
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Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing. – Luigi Barzini

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Diplomacy
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Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood. – Luigi Barzini

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Humanity
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I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose. – Elinor Wylie

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Imagination

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. – Mike Krzyzewski

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Imagination

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. – Dorthea Brande

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Imagination

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as youre working and when the cameras rolling, but theres certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that youre making a movie. – John Hawkes

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Imagination

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The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. – Lyman Trumbull

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The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. – William Bernbach

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Im intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time theyre done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various peoples opinions. Its difficult to have an undistilled vision. – Carla Gugino

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. – Mark Twain, quoted in Autobiography with Letters by William L. Phelps

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