Elena Ferrante Quotes

When I returned home that night with the children, I felt the close, comfortable warmth of the apartment for the first time since the abandonmen.

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• When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Business
  • Man
  • Body

• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Father
  • Piano

• Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Choice

• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

  

  Forrest Mars, Jr.
  • Man
  • Way
  • Religious

• The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Want
  • Best

• Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trying
  • Democracy
  • Problems

• I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Responsibility

• I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Alone
  • Path
  • Diamonds

• When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Up
  • Time
  • Soul

• I just do my work, try to do everything I can. I don't weigh in all offseason. I just try to get better, be in better position, be an athlete.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Work
  • Better
  • Athlete

• I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Never
  • Mood
  • Drink

• As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Characters
  • Obstacles
  • Southerner

• Nam qui hominem, quamuis ob merita damnatum, in conspectu suo iugulari pro uoluptate computat, conscientiam suam polluit, tam scilicet, quam si homicidii, quod fit occulte, spectator et particeps fiat.

  

  Lactantius

• Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.

  

  Ben Stein
  • People
  • God
  • Science

• I kind of prefer bouncing back and forth between theater and films. It's like having the best of both worlds, both very different experiences.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Different

• I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • World
  • Good

• Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Joy
  • Path
  • Wind

• 'The Muppets' is really about innocence and charm and sweetness and light and having hope - and stupid gags.

  

  James Bobin
  • Hope
  • Light
  • Stupid

• Some of the most hard-working, generous people I've met in my whole life didn't really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

  

  Chloe Zhao
  • People
  • Life
  • Trump

• These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

  

  Geoffrey Miller
  • Creativity
  • Humans
  • Selection

• When I returned home that night with the children, I felt the close, comfortable warmth of the apartment for the first time since the abandonmen.

  

  Elena Ferrante