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 had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.

  

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• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

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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.

  

  Gareth Bale
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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.

  

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• I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

  

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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!

  

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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
  • Up
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• I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.

  

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• Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

  

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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.

  

  Eric Butterworth

• My family always ate dinner at the table, and we would chat about our day while eating. My parents like to have a few glasses of wine and linger after the meal is over, peeling oranges for dessert while talking. It's lovely.

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
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  • Parents
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• We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• Every time I go home, I look around, and it feels surreal. Like, I'm not living out of my car anymore, I don't have to ask people for money.

  

  Bryson Tiller
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  • Time
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• Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Real
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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