Elena Ferrante Quotes
My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I've uttered, in which there's often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers, in my less which is such because of her more, in my more which is the yielding to the force of her less.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
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I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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My first film would have been 'Rough,' and it got delayed. 'Venkatadri Express' released first and became a big success. I signed 'Venkatadri' after 15 days of shooting for 'Rough'. I had lot of faith in the script, and I feel luck plays a major part.
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
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Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.
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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
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The whole social media thing is ridiculous. Everybody gets to say what they want all the time. That's fine in theory, but it's not civilised. Imagine going into a bar, and everybody in that bar is talking like people do online. They'd just get their teeth punched in.
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Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.
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I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.
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My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I've uttered, in which there's often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers, in my less which is such because of her more, in my more which is the yielding to the force of her less.
