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Quotes About Ida

Heaven is inside us, ' Ida uttered in a rather loud whisper.
~ H. L. Balcomb
'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski
So, what were you doing that was such a secret?" "Making moonshine." I stared. "You're kidding me." "Nope." "Moonshine? As in rednecks and brown jugs and prohibition?" Ida Belle drew herself up straight. "It hasn't been illegal in quite some time. We're hardly rednecks, and we put all of our moonshine into pretty pink cough syrup bottles.
~ Jana Deleon
At one point, Ida wondered if the board would get me a new school if this one burned down. "By accident, of course," she said quickly. Fire would solve a lot of that building's problems.
~ Jim Murphy
Whenever Ida pointed celery at him, she meant business.
~ Fannie Flagg
Contrary to her father's predictions, Ida inflicted far more damage on Standard Oil than she received in return.
~ Ron Chernow
Il giorno seguente partii per Venezia insieme a Ida. In treno ci ripromettemmo di diventare adulte come a nessuna era mai successo.
~ Elena Ferrante
Ruth Rendell, Jonathon Kellerman, Len Deighton . . . clever writers, all of them. No romance, or supernatural, or street-level cop novels here. Psychological mysteries. Suspense. Kellerman was even himself a psychologist. Quinn figured the readers of such books got their enjoyment out of trying to outwit the writers. Would Ida or her late husband be the sort to write critical Amazon
~ John Lutz
Did Ida never look for him?" Dieter asks. "She didn't believe in spirits." "And what became of Henry?" "Oh. From time to time you can still hear him calling. My father heard his voice himself." "Every Saturday night when he came home drunk," Frieda says.
~ Stefan Kiesbye
Und ganz am Ende, in den freien Raum unter dem letzten Marchen, hatte sie mit ihrer windschiefen Schrift geschrieben: Und sie lebten glucklich und zufrieden. Paul und Ida auch.
~ Unknown
'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski