Elena Ferrante Quotes
Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
Harlan Ellison -
I never allow myself to be pressured.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
Irwin Rose -
I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
Ted Deutch -
Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
Frances Beinecke -
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
Sam Shepard -
I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
Frances Beinecke -
I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
Gavin Andresen -
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
Naima Adedapo -
I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
Tamora Pierce -
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
Jack Horner
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
Vin Diesel -
A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
Fergus Henderson -
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
Barbara Kingsolver -
One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
Kate Grenville -
In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.
Ina Garten -
I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
Taylor Swift
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If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.
Imogen Poots -
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
Andrea Bocelli -
That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.
Scott Ritter -
Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
Angus Wilson -
Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.
Elena Ferrante