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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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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In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.
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The car (FT86) is not only FUN to drive, but in terms of quality and precision of handling, the car has very much surpassed any expectations I had. More easily put, if you had blind folded me and told me this was a new creation by BMW's M department, I would not even hesitate to believe you. It's that good.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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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.
