Elena Ferrante Quotes
And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.
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A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things.
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I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.
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Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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The majors are very important, and I would love to win one or many. I'll continue to compete in them hard and win if I can. There's not much more I can say. I'd love to be part of the club of people who've won majors.
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It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.
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Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.
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Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up the definition of "nation"; this is how awkward my relation is to this concept. And it is defined as, "a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory." Perhaps if you replace "descent" with "dissent" the definition becomes more meaningful.
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Pretty much everybody we know in Glasgow who's in a band has another job. All of us have worked in bars, cafes, or cinemas. It means you can afford to do the thing you love.
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And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.
