Elena Ferrante Quotes
He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
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People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.
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Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?
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Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.
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For most couples, the first event they plan together is their wedding.
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I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
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To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.
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I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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Any opportunity to get into fashion and find a beautiful dress, I'm very definitely excited about that.
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He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.
