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" While drawing, I discover what I really want to say. "
Dario Fo
Really
Drawing
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" With comedy I can search for the profound. "
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" We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression. "
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Thought
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" I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better. "
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Sun
Better
Driving
" Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you. "
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You
" It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.' "
Dario Fo
Free
Him
You
" For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. "
Dario Fo
Been
Speech
Down
" Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people. "
Dario Fo
Love
Always
Dead
" Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible. "
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State
Comedy
Existing
" I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate. "
Dario Fo
You
I Am
Fun
" It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage. "
Dario Fo
Getting
Making
Many
" It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. "
Dario Fo
Enjoy
Control
Satire
" Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture. "
Dario Fo
Used
Culture
I See
" Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized. "
Dario Fo
Lawyers
Authority
Hypocrisy
" Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. "
Dario Fo
Thought
World
Revolution
" All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target. "
Dario Fo
Target
Become
Exercise
" It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events. "
Dario Fo
Dangerous
Talk
Limits
" Know how to live the time that is given you. "
Dario Fo
How
Given
Know
" Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. "
Dario Fo
Involved
Justification
War
" Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. "
Dario Fo
Either
Something
Expression
" When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. "
Dario Fo
Boy
Ironic
Stories
" Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe. "
Dario Fo
Culture
Literature
Trade
" A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. "
Dario Fo
Own
Time
Speak
" In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs. "
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American
People
Accept
" Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. "
Dario Fo
Socialism
Say
Real