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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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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If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.
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There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.
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Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.
