Elena Ferrante Quotes
Translation is our salvation: it draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
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No one is born hating others.
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I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.
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I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
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If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
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Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.
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Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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Translation is our salvation: it draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born.
