Alberto Moravia Quotes

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

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• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Mind
  • Done
  • War

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Childhood
  • Goal
  • Them

• Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

  

  Mahavira
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Forgiveness

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Feel
  • Very
  • Close

• The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Memory
  • Two
  • Collection

• Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Car

• I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Stop
  • Successful
  • Ambition

• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

  Gary Larson
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • New York
  • Busy

• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Movies

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Down
  • Direction
  • Spanish

• Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • Weird
  • Personality
  • Depression

• Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel that leaves us with some revealing snapshots of America, both at war and in denial, and some telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood.

  

  Michiko Kakutani
  • Trying
  • War
  • Couple

• I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Think
  • Car

• I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Energy
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• I cannot conjure up an ounce of respect for Bill Clinton when it comes to the military. Every time I see him salute a Marine, it infuriates me. I don't think Bill Clinton cares one iota about what happens in a military unit.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Up
  • Time
  • Respect

• I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Personality
  • Write
  • Novel