"Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I'm about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again."

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Source : Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.230, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Melina Marchetta

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“I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left.”

Source : "Is this the face of France's first Madame la Présidente?" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2006.
“If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.”
“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”
“To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.”
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“The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.”
“When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.”
“You can go to a psychoanalyst one day and then go the next day and something else will come out. So, yes, there was some preparation. But still, when a person gets hypnotized, you don't really know what the outcome will be.”

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