Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’
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The greatest achievement of human technology is tools that allow us to create more than we understand.
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Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
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The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required.
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The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.
