Natalia Ginzburg Quotes
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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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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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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
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What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
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There are producers that have been my friends for many years that I'm still a big fan of, from Boyz Noize to solo acts. Justice. It really varies. All the way to like...sometimes I'll just find some dude out of Chicago that makes a great house song. I'm feeling a lot of the deep house stuff, Jamie Jones.
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I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.
