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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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
