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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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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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.
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Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad.
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I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
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My parents didn't really know one another.
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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.
