Elena Ferrante Quotes
You’re really doing well, it’s the satisfaction you get from school, it’s love,” Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill – natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
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The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.
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In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.
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If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
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You’re really doing well, it’s the satisfaction you get from school, it’s love,” Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.
