Elena Ferrante Quotes

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

Elena Ferrante

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• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

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• I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

  

  Idris Elba
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• I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

  

  Larry David
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• History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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• I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Think
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• When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

  

  Randy Houser
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• I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • City
  • President
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• Say something personal, not from a publicist.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Something
  • Say
  • Personal

• Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Value
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• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Use
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• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
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• A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Beautiful
  • Gold
  • New

• I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Up
  • Family
  • Beauty

• I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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  • Words
  • My Life

• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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  • Man
  • Always

• We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Band
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• Real big pretty titty, shut down every city. If you want the kit kitty, gotta get the key from me, all new everything, plus pay the rent for me. If we in the woods then these niggas pitch a tent for me.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Real
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  • City

• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Up
  • Law
  • Rules

• The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Rules
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• Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Writing
  • War
  • Political

• Things aren't different. Things are things.

  

  William Gibson
  • Life
  • Different

• The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Rules
  • Emotions
  • Stick