Marco Polo Quotes

• It's important for people to try and be more like Marco Polo in how he explored the world, very few of us nowadays pay attention to cultures and try to understand them.

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  Zhu Zhu

  People   Important   Trying  

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Kings   Loss   Moon  

  Oscar Wilde (1909). “Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde”

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• There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.

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  Italo Calvino

  Believe   Venice   Hair  

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• We trusted the writers and showrunners [in Westworlds] so much because they're so brilliant and the writing's so incredible. It really was like playing Marco Polo, where you just kind of followed their voice and they would lead you to water.

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  Evan Rachel Wood

  Writing   Voice   Water  

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

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  Tom Robbins

  Ocean   Book   Blue  

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam

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• The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

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  Chris Albrecht

  Challenges   Able   Scripts  

  Source: collider.com

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• My mom didn't teach me about Marco Polo. She didn't teach me about Napoleon. She didn't teach me about any of that. But she did teach me how to survive and to be a good person. And you need to be a strong woman to do that. She's the biggest person in my life. She's my Virgin Maria. That's why I love religion so much.

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  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom   Strong Women   Needs  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

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  Gianni Versace

  Mixing   Culture   Littles  

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  1811

• In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

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  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Book   Order   Land  

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• Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful   Religious   Giving Up  

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