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Dario Fo

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ALBERT SCHWEITZER Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER You don’t have to speak for your work if it truly has its own voice.
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BERNARD VOTO The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
BERNARD DE VOTO The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it
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DARIO FO Know how to live the time that is given you.
DARIO FO I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. E...
DARIO FO Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
DARIO FO In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of c...
DARIO FO Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
DARIO FO It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.
DARIO FO It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
DARIO FO We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a t...
DARIO FO Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the M...
DARIO FO We must hold primary elections to choose the center-left candidate for mayor of Milan,
DARIO FO Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middl...
DARIO FO It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age ... There are some people who l...
DARIO FO We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ... but instead there is a ...
DARIO FO When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
DARIO FO Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hear...
DARIO FO I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could ...
DARIO FO I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I sho...
DARIO FO Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
DARIO FO I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the ...
DARIO FO Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interes...
DARIO FO At the root of everything I write is tragedy.
DARIO FO For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it dow...
DARIO FO Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
DARIO FO We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together...
DARIO FO All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are bein...
DARIO FO Laughter does not please the mighty.
DARIO FO While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.
DARIO FO With comedy I can search for the profound.
DARIO FO It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain comp...
DARIO FO Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of cultu...
DARIO FO A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there ar...
NORTHROP FRYE Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause
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Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassb...
DARIO FO Know how to live the time that is given you.
DARIO FO I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. E...
DARIO FO Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
DARIO FO In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of c...
DARIO FO Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
DARIO FO It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.
DARIO FO It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
DARIO FO We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a t...
DARIO FO Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the M...
DARIO FO We must hold primary elections to choose the center-left candidate for mayor of Milan,
DARIO FO Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middl...
DARIO FO It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age ... There are some people who l...
DARIO FO We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ... but instead there is a ...
DARIO FO When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
DARIO FO Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hear...
DARIO FO I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could ...
DARIO FO I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I sho...
DARIO FO Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
DARIO FO I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the ...
DARIO FO Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interes...
DARIO FO At the root of everything I write is tragedy.
DARIO FO For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it dow...
DARIO FO Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
DARIO FO We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together...
DARIO FO All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are bein...
DARIO FO Laughter does not please the mighty.
DARIO FO While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.
DARIO FO With comedy I can search for the profound.
DARIO FO It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain comp...
DARIO FO Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of cultu...
DARIO FO If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you diff...
FO-YAN If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you dif...
FO-YAN The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
DARIO ARGENTO You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
DARIO ARGENTO Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or e...
DARIO ARGENTO I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almos...
DARIO ARGENTO I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And...
DARIO ARGENTO If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if...
DARIO ARGENTO Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear ...
DARIO ARGENTO I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
DARIO ARGENTO Goblin was a new band and this was their first major work. The oldest of them was only 18. They were...
DARIO ARGENTO Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
DARIO ARGENTO Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
DARIO ARGENTO But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
DARIO ARGENTO But now we have bought the film back and it will be shown in Paris in the original version for the f...
DARIO ARGENTO But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
DARIO ARGENTO I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I s...
DARIO ARGENTO Masters of Horror
DARIO ARGENTO There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
DARIO ARGENTO Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I hum...
DARIO ARGENTO There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
DARIO ARGENTO I know what Tony told you. But it looked to me like he lifted. I'll get to the bottom of it.
DARIO FRANCHITTI Cuban-Americans view him as part of the administration, and said if he really believed what he was s...
DARIO MORENO Growth did dip in the fourth quarter, but all of the business surveys suggest it will bounce back qu...
DARIO PERKINS Ask ten engineers for the best orbit for a particular spacecraft and you'll get ten different ideas.
DARIO IZZO Of course we can do it. But more importantly the players have begun to think we can do it.
DARIO GRADI Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films....
DARIO ARGENTO I'll have to (fill) him with alcohol (today) to get the real truth.
DARIO FRANCHITTI I lost a good friend here six years ago and this means a lot to all of us who were friends of Greg M...
DARIO FRANCHITTI It's looking difficult now. (Wheldon) and his team keep doing this kind of a job.
DARIO FRANCHITTI We just cannot continue to have these things happen.
DARIO FRANCHITTI Finishing 1-2-3-4 last year was amazing. It was something people thought we couldn't do, and we were...
DARIO FRANCHITTI We're OK. But it's all about tomorrow. All four of us had different setups most of the weekend, but ...
DARIO FRANCHITTI Very nice to be the last one on the track for one-lap qualifying.
DARIO FRANCHITTI After last year's race, anything is possible Sunday. It's a typical street course race. You've got t...
DARIO FRANCHITTI It has a lot more to do with how you get off the corner and how late you can brake going into the ne...
DARIO FRANCHITTI After last year's event, anything is possible. You have to get through that first turn. Once you're ...
DARIO FRANCHITTI This is a bittersweet win because I lost a good friend here six years ago. It was important for me t...
DARIO FRANCHITTI Tony is a very strange character. He is one of the most generous and most selfish men I have met. I ...
DARIO FRANCHITTI He's never far from my mind at any time, but when I'm here especially. It was nice to win here today...
DARIO FRANCHITTI I think performance-wise we had a strong season and we were very quick in most of the races.
DARIO FRANCHITTI Investors see the IMF as a policeman who controls good fiscal and monetary policies. When a crisis h...
DARIO PEDRAJO I was not very happy with the way things were going, ... I've lightened up considerably, but I will ...
DARIO FRANCHITTI It sounded like the mountain exploded, and the whole thing crumbled. I could not see any house stand...
DARIO LIBATAN The car is definitely fast enough, which makes it doubly frustrating that we didn't get a chance to ...
DARIO FRANCHITTI The industry is moving on. Digital is here and it's here to stay. HMV and Virgin have been slower to...
DARIO BETTI It gives Raul's side a tremendous strategic advantage, either way. It freezes the opposition. It's b...
DARIO MORENO We think that the future of spaceflight is in using new systems, new architectures and exploring tec...
DARIO IZZO To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost
DARIO SPINI A wheel bearing went in the rear suspension, which I think is the same problem as Tony (Kanaan). It ...
DARIO FRANCHITTI I had the clutch pedal depressed, but the car slowly started to creep forward and the engine stalled...
DARIO FRANCHITTI It caught me by surprise, because I've never had the back end come around like that there. It's goin...
DARIO FRANCHITTI I actually thought it was closer than that. It was close enough.
DARIO FRANCHITTI I was not very happy with the way things were going.
DARIO FRANCHITTI It's one of those things [where] you get the luxury of so much time here at Indianapolis to test tha...
DARIO FRANCHITTI Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearf...
DARIO ARGENTO I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, ...
DARIO ARGENTO Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important docum...
DARIO SPINI I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
DARIO ARGENTO Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. I...
DARIO ARGENTO It's a little bumpy, but I like that in a street course.
DARIO FRANCHITTI There are a lot of consumers paying for songs then finding they don't work on their MP3 player becau...
DARIO BETTI My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so...
DARIO ARGENTO Brazil is the star of the market. It's a significantly improved credit over the last few years and p...
DARIO PEDRAJO Those ratings have come from fundamental improvements in monetary and fiscal policy. Deficit spendin...
DARIO PEDRAJO Argentina says an agreement with the fund is not indispensable because they want to be able to keep ...
DARIO PEDRAJO The tragedy of Katrina wasn't the failure to predict the track or to predict the intensity of the st...
DARIO MORENO There's a lot of activity. The truth is that the Cuban community is still very hard line and remains...
DARIO MORENO The fact that things are as convoluted as they are shows how Raul so dominates Hialeah politics. And...
DARIO MORENO I don't mind the money coming in. Just spend it properly.
DARIO MARENCO They lowered it without any justification. Every time you build a house, you're subsidizing the deve...
DARIO MARENCO I tried to spare them this thing. But if they want to fight, I'm ready.
DARIO MARENCO We've done everything they've asked in order to get them to build at the airport.
DARIO MARENCO The most important thing is not to lose Blue Shield. I'm glad we came to some kind of understanding ...
DARIO MARENCO I could not see any house standing anymore.
DARIO LIBATAN The response to the competition was excellent. At the meeting we will discuss the different methods ...
DARIO IZZO If we'd have lost I would have said it would be mission impossible.
DARIO GRADI He's exactly the type of player I've been waiting for - he's got all the qualities I need.
DARIO GRADI It's a tough league, the toughest it has been and we have to play at our very best. Maybe that isn't...
DARIO GRADI I fully expect Juan to have something sorted out before the weekend,
DARIO GRADI With the rule as it is at the moment he is unsignable, which seems a little harsh on him because I w...
DARIO GRADI Hopefully, he can go out on loan, score some goals and show that he has the ability to come back and...
DARIO GRADI I would only really look to bring him back here if I was going to play him in the first team,
DARIO GRADI The sending-off changed the game but we didn't have the quality to finish them off.
DARIO GRADI [Deadline day also came and went with no successes following numerous rejections from various clubs....
DARIO GRADI I could see him coming. He was coming up quickly and I really don't know what happened. But it all c...
DARIO FRANCHITTI A split parliament would be the worst-case scenario.
DARIO PERKINS It shows quite clearly that Europe's benefiting from strong global demand, and there are now signs t...
DARIO PERKINS Hiring intentions seem to have gone up a little bit and confidence is edging up. It's right to assum...
DARIO PERKINS It confirms everyone's expectations that they'll raise rates in March. When growth is improving, you...
DARIO PERKINS When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
DARIO ARGENTO If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
DARIO ARGENTO This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell s...
DARIO ARGENTO I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.
DARIO ARGENTO I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most i...
DARIO ARGENTO My life and career is my own adventure.
DARIO ARGENTO So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
DARIO ARGENTO The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an af...
DARIO ARGENTO Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbel...
DARIO ARGENTO I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
DARIO ARGENTO Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
DARIO ARGENTO