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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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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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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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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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
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I grew up in a conservative New England town and showed up to my middle school orientation dressed like 'Clueless' while everyone else was wearing J. Crew and lacrosse uniforms. I never really fit into that preppy look.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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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.
