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Elfriede Jelinek

"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."

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"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."

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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."

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Donna Grant

"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."

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Donna Grant

"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."

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"Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind."

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Donna Grant

"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

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Donna Grant

"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."

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Donna Grant

"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."

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Donna Grant

"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."

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Donna Grant

"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."

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Donna Grant

"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."

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Elfriede Jelinek
"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."

Society

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Elfriede Jelinek
"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."

Eternity

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Elfriede Jelinek
"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."

Parents

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Elfriede Jelinek
"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

Feelings

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Elfriede Jelinek
"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."

Music

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Elfriede Jelinek
"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."

People

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Elfriede Jelinek
"I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist."

Men

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Elfriede Jelinek
"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."

Freedom

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Elfriede Jelinek
"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."

Language

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Elfriede Jelinek
"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable."

Government

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