Elena Ferrante Quotes
Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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I love my mom and dad.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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If I wasn’t winning you wouldn’t care
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Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
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I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.
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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
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Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
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The book does not open from left to right or from right to left, but from top to bottom: one page in the sky, one in the dust.
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Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
