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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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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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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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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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
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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.
