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 came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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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 maƱana.
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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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For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.
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I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.
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Beautiful everywhere, outside and in, male fantasies.