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Bowing Not Knowing To What
“I would never want to work with people who only worked as I did or believed as I did, because what do I learn? I was fascinated watching Magnani tear a script apart as if it were a side of beef, searching for tendon and sinew and sweet meat. She was primal! I told you! ‘I understand the human heart,’ she would say, and she did. She despised analysis and what she called the coddling of the soul, so she disapproved of me and of Joanne because we had shrinks and nutritionists and we read books that might help us think and feel better. What fools we were, we mortals, seemed to be what Magnani was thinking. Live, love, fight, fuck, rage. That might have been her motto.”
— Marlon Brando on Anna Magnani
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I don’t think about whether people will remember me or not. I’ve been an OK person. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve taught people a thing or two. That’s what’s important. Sooner or later the public will forget you. The memory of you will fade. What’s important are the individuals you’ve influenced along the way.
— Julia Child
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
And the silence will set out
Tireless traveler
Like the beam of a lightless star
