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.

Elena Ferrante

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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.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
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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.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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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.

  

  Jack Dee
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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!

  

  Hannah Murray
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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.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
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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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Happy
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• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Luck

• 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.

  

  Osman Rashid
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  • Happy
  • Stop

• I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Happy
  • Goals
  • Search

• I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Up
  • Time
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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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  • Work
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• I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stupid

• 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.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Life
  • Thought
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• The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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  • Men
  • Happy

• One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Time
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• Most of those who came were women, and I was now much criticized, now much praised by opposing groups. At first I was frightened, but Mariarosa interceded with authority and I discovered in myself an unsuspected capacity to summarize disagreement and agreement, choosing in the meantime a role as mediator. I was good at saying in a convincing way: That isn’t exactly what I meant.

  

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  • Women
  • Authority
  • Discovered

• New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Me
  • Hard
  • New York

• When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'

  

  Gallant
  • City
  • New York
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• Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Running
  • Football
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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.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Happy
  • My Life
  • Discovered