Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.
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Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
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Even as a full-grown adult, it can still feel destabilizing when your family goes through changes.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
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My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.
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The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.
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I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them.
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There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
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Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.
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In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
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I fall in love too terribly hardFor love to ever last.
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Words for being lost or for being found.
