Elena Ferrante Quotes
When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
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Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
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Playing in the NBA has been a dream of mine for a long time, so to finally get to do that is amazing.
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
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Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
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I think a lot of women are underestimated.
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First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?
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I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.
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If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.
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When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities.
