Dacia Maraini Quotes
A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.
Quotes to Explore
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
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A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.
