Elena Ferrante Quotes

It wasn't innocent blood. To my father nothing about Amalia ever seemed innocent. He, so furious, so bitter and yet so eager for pleasure, so irascible and so egotistical, couldn't bear that she had a friendly, at times even joyful, relationship with the world. He recognized in it a trace of betrayal.

Elena Ferrante

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• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
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• We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

  

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• I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
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• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

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• Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

  

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• I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
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• ...reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

  

  Dana Perino
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• I think anyone in a relationship has to deal with temptation if they're being honest with themselves. People don't talk about it very much, but it's very honest. Guys and girls both have temptation.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Relationship
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• It's quite a pure relationship, designer and muse. I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That's why you need that personal touch.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Why
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• I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single.

  

  Breckin Meyer
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• I just want to be in a relationship.

  

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• I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.

  

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• Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something.

  

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• My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young. He's a guitar player and does programming as well. To have the working and personal relationship coincide has been very natural.

  

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• My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.

  

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• D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

  

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• Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Will
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• For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

  

  I. M. Pei
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• It wasn't innocent blood. To my father nothing about Amalia ever seemed innocent. He, so furious, so bitter and yet so eager for pleasure, so irascible and so egotistical, couldn't bear that she had a friendly, at times even joyful, relationship with the world. He recognized in it a trace of betrayal.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Relationship
  • Blood
  • Innocent