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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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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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 never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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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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I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves.
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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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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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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.
