Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
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I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.
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The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.
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I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
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Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it.
