Elena Ferrante Quotes

What have I done, she thought, dazed by wine, and what is this gold circle, this glittering zero I’ve stuck my finger in.

Elena Ferrante

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• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

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• I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

  

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• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
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• Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

  

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• I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
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• From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Put anthrax on your Tampax and slap you 'till you can't stand! Girl, you just blew your chance, don't mean to ruin your plans!

  

  Eminem
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• A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
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• Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
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• America's Sweetheart was my one true piece of shit. It has no cohesive thread. I just hate it.

  

  Courtney Love
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• I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.

  

  Brian J. White
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• Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

  

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  Jenni Rivera
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• I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

  

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• Knights of the Rosy Cross, they bore Its weight within the heart, but wore Without, devotion's sign in glistening ruby bright; The gall and vinegar they drank alone, But to the world at large would only own The wine of faith, sparkling with rosy light.

  

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  Viggo Mortensen
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• Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
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• People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
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• What have I done, she thought, dazed by wine, and what is this gold circle, this glittering zero I’ve stuck my finger in.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Wine
  • Stuck
  • Circle