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'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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.
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An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
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To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
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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.
