Elena Ferrante Quotes
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
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You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
