The Magic Bow (1946)
Stewart Granger: Nicolò Paganini
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Quotes
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Nicolo Paganini : Forgive me, I'm in a bad temper.
Jeanne de Vermond : Perhaps I could cure it.
Nicolo Paganini , Jeanne de Vermond : I believe you could.
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Nicolo Paganini : Nicolo Paganini play in the street?
Jeanne de Vermond : Oh, at the time there would be nobody about to hear you.
Nicolo Paganini : No one to hear me? Musicians play to be heard, Mademoiselle.
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Nicolo Paganini : [to Count de Vemond, for whom Paganini is to play outside his jail on the street] The name is Paganini, jailbird.
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Nicolo Paganini : With the violin, I can talk to the world... by God's will.
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Luigi Germi : Nicolo, what's the matter? You find the laurels harder to gain than you imagined?
Nicolo Paganini : Germi, I'm a fool.
Luigi Germi : Good, it takes most of us a lifetime to realize that.
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Nicolo Paganini : The admiration of fools is an insult.
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Luigi Germi : Nicolo, do you know anything about dueling.
Nicolo Paganini : No, do you?
Luigi Germi : No.
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Nicolo Paganini : Germi, you're a terrible liar.
Luigi Germi : Stop being sentimental.
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Jeanne de Vermond : Tell me, do all people who play the violin divinely have such bad tempers?
Nicolo Paganini : Who else do you know who plays the violin divinely as I do?
Jeanne de Vermond : Nobody, darling. Nobody.
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Nicolo Paganini : Your holiness, with your permission I should now like to play a piece of music which came to me when I needed a prayer, and which is especially near to my heart.
Pope Leo : Play my son. Your prayer may just be answered.