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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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
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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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I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
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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.
