Elena Ferrante Quotes
I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.
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So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.
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I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.
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I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.
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I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.
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I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
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I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.
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I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.
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I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.
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Everybody should be lucky enough to live as long as I have and be happy.
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The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.
