Elena Ferrante Quotes
In other words, the cultural education of any high-school student should include an introduction to the idea that a writer adapts his writing to ever-changing expressive needs and that a higher or lower note doesn't mean that the singer has changed.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
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I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.
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Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
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I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.
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You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.
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In other words, the cultural education of any high-school student should include an introduction to the idea that a writer adapts his writing to ever-changing expressive needs and that a higher or lower note doesn't mean that the singer has changed.
