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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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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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.
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In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook.
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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.
