Niccolo Ammaniti Quotes
Even the most difficult things which you think you'll never get over you do get over, and in a trice you find they're behind you and you have to go on. New things await you.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
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I've always been able to put things in perspective.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
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The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.
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When a person hasn’t in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog’s bark in every sound.
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Meaningful learning in a community requires both participation and reification to be present and in interplay. Sharing artifacts without engaging in discussions and activities around them impairs the ability to negotiate the meaning of what is being shared. Interacting without producing artifacts makes learning depend on individual interpretation and memory and can limit its depth, extent, and impact. Both participation and reification are necessary. Sometimes one process may dominate the other, or the two processes may not be well integrated. The challenge of this polarity is for communities to successfully cycle between the two.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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Even the most difficult things which you think you'll never get over you do get over, and in a trice you find they're behind you and you have to go on. New things await you.
