Anna Magnani quotes
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“Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.”
-- Anna MagnaniSource : "Philip French's screen legends" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.
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“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.”
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“[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.”
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“Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.”
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“It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.”
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“Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.”
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“A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.”
-- Anna Magnani
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“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
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“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”
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“If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.”
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“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
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