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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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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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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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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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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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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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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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
