Dacia Maraini Quotes
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Malala Yousafzai -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill -
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
Sally Mann -
I don't see myself as a diva at all.
Bebe Neuwirth -
Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
Barry Bonds
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper -
I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
J. D. Souther -
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
Adam Driver -
I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Ted Cruz -
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae -
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
Halle Berry
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White -
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Kate Christensen -
The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
Manti Te'o -
I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma -
I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
Barry Larkin
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The country has stopped being free and democratic.
Andrey Illarionov -
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
Ian Mcewan -
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.
John Connolly -
I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
Bruno Mars -
Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.
Dacia Maraini