Natalia Ginzburg Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
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She wasn’t angry. You can’t get angry just because the world’s so much bigger than you and you’re stuck in it.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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Luck is not what gets you the acting gigs, your talent does, but luck gets you the opportunity to audition for the acting gig. Once you get in that casting room your luck has run out and all that you're left with is your talent to rely on.
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The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.