Alberto Moravia Quotes
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.
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Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.
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We need a national focus on increasing the sustainable growth rate of our economy.
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I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything complete - it made it all make sense.
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If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.
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It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.
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New York periodically goes through a real estate crisis. I didn't subscribe to the school that real estate only goes up.
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The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
