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If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#been #cinema #evening #fantasy #friends

It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#fantastic #good #mixed #percent #review

Making movies is all about instinct. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#instinct #making #movies

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies. ↗

— Arthur Laurents

#enough #fantasies #left #me

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#all things #bit #boxing #chi #current

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#could #ease #embrace #ever #good

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#barely #because #cannot #enlightenment #history

I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#believe #cease #corrosive #device #encourages

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#i #i think #like #much #people

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#comfort #economy #embrace #happiness #i