Elena Ferrante Quotes
In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you’re saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
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Problems are cured by facing their cause.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
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I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.
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To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
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My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
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'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing. I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense.
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Variation, whatever may be its cause, and however it may be limited, is the essential phenomenon of Evolution. Variation, in fact, is Evolution. The readiest way, then, of solving the problem of Evolution is to study the facts of Variation.
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Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.
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We live in a very gynophobic society.
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In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you’re saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.
