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 don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.
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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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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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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.
