Elena Ferrante Quotes
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.
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When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
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I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.
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I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base.
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One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.
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Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.
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Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
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I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.
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I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
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I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
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You can’t leave me here to hope, when in reality you’ve already decided everything.
