Natalia Ginzburg Quotes
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.
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Germany is, of course, my country.
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I didn't like what we did. You can't leave one country and head off to another and spend more time on the plane than training or playing.
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A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
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I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.
