Elsa Morante Quotes
Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
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The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
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To act is to rest.
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I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
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All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
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When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
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In 'A Chosen Few,' I spent hours and hours listening to the pain of people of who had survived wondering why they survived and what their life means and what right do they have to survive.
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Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.
