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“He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.”

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Giovanna Cau

Giovanna Cau, an individual of an unknown profession, was born on March 11, 1923. Limited information is available about her. more

“It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest this. I was very young, just a girl. We went to the Viminale [home of the Ministry of the Interior] and spoke to the chair of the ministry board. Thanks to our initiative, we got the bureaucracy rolling on giving women the right to vote. I have to thank my father for this. He was in Geneva at the League of Nations, and women voted there. He thought it was absurd that women didn't vote in his country yet.”

“If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.”

Ifs Knows Way Use Advantage Currents

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father, and my best friends, but I can't complain. I am 91 years old and I am still here at my desk.”

People Years Stills I Can Pain Courses Father Lost Loss Complaining Partners Closest Desks My Best Friend Full Life Pain And Loss

Author:Giovanna Cau

“Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.”

Want Father Grows Growing Up Wife Taught Great Things Want Me

Author:Giovanna Cau

“My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.”

Mother Father Special Affinity

Author:Giovanna Cau

“It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.”

Humanity Greater Sacrifice Ruins Heroism Tolerable

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.”

Thinking Children Today Creative Changed Consumerism

Author:Giovanna Cau

“If you do or don't like something it's because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them or the right company or the right connections. It's really just about the thing itself.”

Ifs Behinds Company Connections Like Something

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.”

Book Stuff Interesting Taste Variety Eclectic

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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