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Book Review: De Niro – A Biography

‘The archetypal empty bottle which only becomes visible when it’s filled by a role…’

‘Time and romance are inextricably linked because as soon as anything starts, it starts to end…’

‘His thoughts are like a landslide…’

‘There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise…’

‘Caring too much for objects can destroy you…’

‘It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before…’

‘The victims of Jack the Ripper were never ‘just prostitutes’; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers...’

‘Comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love…’

‘Great events turn on small hinges…’

‘Gladiators needed to happen to Saturday night television in the same way punk needed to happen to music in the late ’70s…’