Elena Ferrante Quotes
I recognized in them what I had never had and, I now knew, would always lack. What was it? I wasn't able to say precisely: the training, perhaps, to feel that the questions of the world were deeply connected to me; the capacity to feel them as crucial and not purely as information to display at an exam; a mental conformation that didn't reduce everything to my own individual battle, to the effort to be successful.Elena Ferrante
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor -
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer -
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel -
We're all idealistic when young.
Pat Oliphant -
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
Zoe Kravitz -
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
Adam Clymer -
I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
Pat Sajak -
When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.
Gary Neville -
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
Dakota Johnson -
When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
Gabrielle Union
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
Dan Gilbert -
One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
Adam Cohen -
I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.
Fantasia Barrino -
Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
Dakota Fanning -
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
Dag Hammarskjold -
For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone.
W. H. Auden
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I don't wanna forget the fact that I wanna be one of the best rappers. I feel like some of the best rappers ever - 2Pac, namely, one of them - could take sub-par beats or average beats and turn them into incredible songs.
J. Cole -
I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.
Jeff Lindsay -
I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog.
Esai Morales -
I recognized in them what I had never had and, I now knew, would always lack. What was it? I wasn't able to say precisely: the training, perhaps, to feel that the questions of the world were deeply connected to me; the capacity to feel them as crucial and not purely as information to display at an exam; a mental conformation that didn't reduce everything to my own individual battle, to the effort to be successful.
Elena Ferrante