Elena Ferrante Quotes

I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.

Elena Ferrante

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• Speaking
• Vocabulary
• Arrangement

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• I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

  

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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kind
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• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Pretty
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• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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• On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Fun

• I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

  

  J. August Richards
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• I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Come
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• I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Girl
  • Natural

• Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Lines
  • Circles
  • Vocabulary

• If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Trust
  • Fail
  • Succeeds

• Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Path
  • Compassion
  • Concern

• The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • May
  • Reader
  • Fail

• For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we can't afford to let this fail.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Children
  • Fail
  • Grandchildren

• I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
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• No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Beauty
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• In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.

  

  Confucius
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  • Convey

• The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Vocabulary
  • Cliché
  • Self-Criticism

• My favorite date movie is Scarface. There's nothing like taking a woman to see Scarface. It gets the panties off quick.

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • Movie
  • Woman
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• Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Road
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• What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

  

  Miuccia Prada
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• I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Fail
  • Speaking
  • Vocabulary