Elena Ferrante Quotes
We climbed slowly toward the greatest of our terrors of that time, we went to expose ourselves to fear and interrogate it.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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The truth is, there are many types of businesses that require thousands of dollars to be invested during the startup period. However, there are also many different types of business models that you can run from the comfort of your own home without having to reach too deep into your wallet.
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Let’s say this together: 'Great me no greats', and leave this grading to posterity.
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'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'
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Of all the characters I've played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with Reilly: Ace of Spies', referring to Carl Fitzgerald in Death in Brunswick.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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I have been a Jack Albertson fan forever.
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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
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So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.
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We climbed slowly toward the greatest of our terrors of that time, we went to expose ourselves to fear and interrogate it.
