Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.
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I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.
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To write, you have to want something to survive you.
