Elena Ferrante Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy -
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
Vera Farmiga -
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
Ralph Peters -
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
R. Kelly -
I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi -
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
Victoria Pendleton -
I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
Tatiana Maslany -
I'm an emotional person.
Joanne Rowling
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Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.
Carla Korbes -
It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
Frances McDormand -
I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
Ed Sheeran -
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
Valentina Tereshkova -
I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
Laura Carmichael
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The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.
Maria Brink -
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
Stewart O'Nan -
...a woman without love for her origins is lost.
Elena Ferrante