I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something significant, and we could also mention who use post-modernism in this way - maybe we shouldn't. - Luca Guadagnino

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Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines. - Luca Toni

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I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them. - Luca Guadagnino

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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

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I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary. - Luca Guadagnino

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

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One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful - Sigmund Freud

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You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner! - Luca Guadagnino

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