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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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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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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And in the background, behind everything he did or said or thought, like a low hum, was an unyielding sadness, an emotional blackness that threatened to bloom into depression should he pause to examine it.
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I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.
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With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.
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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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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.
