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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[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
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Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
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I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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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.
