Elena Ferrante Quotes
Such persistence in memorizing fashionable jargon, wasted effort. I had been conditioned by my education, which had shaped my mind, my voice.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I'm not a sun person.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
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An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.
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This done, he felt a little-not much, but a little-better. Before, he would have gladly murdered Beach and James and danced on their graves. Now, he would have been satisfied with straight murder.
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No more settling for less. I've looking for that kind of man that's gonna give his best 'cause I'm giving my best.
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Such persistence in memorizing fashionable jargon, wasted effort. I had been conditioned by my education, which had shaped my mind, my voice.
