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At the root of everything I write is tragedy.


Dario Fo

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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 A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevanc...
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DARIO FO We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics...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DARIO FO We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ...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 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 Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
CRISS JAMI Fo' shiz.
STEPHANIE PERKINS None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
DARIO ARGENTO I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON - Darío
- El protector
CARLA MEDINA Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Everything is in the root.
If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be a...
SHEILA BURKE Everything is in the root.
If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be a...
SHEILA M. BURKE Dario doesn't like the color green, ... He's an advocate of brown.
BILL BUFORD Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the ta...
PETER NAVARRO I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, t...
NICHOLAS SPARKS We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS

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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 A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevanc...
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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,
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DARIO FO When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
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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.
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DARIO FO Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interes...
DARIO FO For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it dow...
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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.
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DARIO ARGENTO I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almos...
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DARIO ARGENTO If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if...
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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.
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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....
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DARIO FRANCHITTI It's looking difficult now. (Wheldon) and his team keep doing this kind of a job.
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DARIO IZZO If we'd have lost I would have said it would be mission impossible.
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DARIO FRANCHITTI A split parliament would be the worst-case scenario.
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DARIO ARGENTO If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
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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.
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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.
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