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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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.
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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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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
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In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important; one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity.
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There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.
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The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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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.
