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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You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.
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The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again.
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She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.
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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.
