Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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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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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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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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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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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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Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
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I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.
