Elena Ferrante Quotes

There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

Elena Ferrante

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• That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Different
  • Play
  • Joy

• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Home
  • Together
  • Know

• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Game
  • Fear
  • Down

• The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Morning

• I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Play
  • Wonder
  • Everyone

• Know or listen to those who know.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Know
  • Motivational
  • Listen

• Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Done
  • Game
  • Worry

• It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Think
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Future
  • Know
  • Decide

• I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Look

• We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Know
  • Always
  • Appreciate

• Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Pretty

• Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Game

• It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Best
  • Do Your Best

• I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Play
  • Like
  • Piano

• I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Game
  • Thought

• We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Know
  • Government
  • Conflict

• Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Try
  • Step
  • Look Out

• Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Friends
  • Democracy
  • United

• I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Real
  • Hate
  • Cry

• There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
  • Single

• For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Soul
  • Blessing

• There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Game
  • Know
  • Play