Elena Ferrante Quotes
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
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To begin with, Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon? This is a matter of national security.
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The magic's in my hands When in doubt I whip it out I got me a rock 'n' roll band It's a free-for-all
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How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?
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If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.
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El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.
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I just loved EDM because I felt like it inspired dance and movement.
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Anthony and I are putting together a company where we won't lose our jobs based on quarterly earnings and can afford to play a longer game. That short game is what creates a glut of mediocrity in the market because people are desperate for hits, and it puts so much pressure on executives to deliver them. We will take that pressure off the artists.
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My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
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I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.
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I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.
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I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.
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My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.
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My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Beautiful everywhere, outside and in, male fantasies.
