Elena Ferrante Quotes

Why did she talk to me about how soles were ground and not about what she read?

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• Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Together
  • Control
  • Digital

• I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • School
  • Day
  • Teachers

• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Hate

• It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Power
  • Politics

• I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Think
  • Crazy

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Different
  • School

• When anything goes, it's women who lose.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Lose
  • Anything

• In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Clear
  • Seeing

• That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Satisfied

• It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Ocean

• We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

  

  Phyllis Theroux
  • Young
  • Faces
  • Read

• Dancehall culture in Europe is very close to Jamaica. Europe and Japan have a very close link to Jamaican dancehall culture, where it's all about sound-systems and horns and girls dancing all crazy - that happens a lot in those places.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Culture
  • Crazy
  • Europe

• Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Believe
  • Fun

• Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Writing
  • Understanding
  • Human

• Why did she talk to me about how soles were ground and not about what she read?

  

  Elena Ferrante
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