Elena Ferrante Quotes
Translation is our salvation: it draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born.Elena Ferrante
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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.
Garry Wills -
I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
Ed Bradley -
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
Irina Shayk -
Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
Nancy Gibbs -
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A person is born with a liking for profit.
Xun Kuang -
I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
Daniel Ek -
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.
Utada Hikaru -
No one is born hating others.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
Zendaya
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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.
Gaby Hoffmann -
My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
Nargis Fakhri -
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.
Maya Angelou -
I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
Ted Dekker -
If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
Oscar Wilde -
Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.
Kevin Keegan
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Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
Austin Kleon -
But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create, underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the unfinished product that is presented to the world. Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.
Eliot Porter -
I like it where I stand. This is fun.
Esther Hicks -
Translation is our salvation: it draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born.
Elena Ferrante