"While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking."

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Source : "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

Dacia Maraini

#Attitude Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rights Quotes

“For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.”

Source : "The Story of My App" by Christoph Niemann, www.newyorker.com. March 18, 2013.
“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”
“There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.”
“I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
“I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.”
“In life, there's a lot that I'm afraid of. Death is always scary. My sister passed away. I'm not scared to die, so much as I was scared to not have her in my life, and it took a long time for me to reconcile that. There are fears everyday, and things that I'm afraid of. I fear everything, but I keep going.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

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