Elena Ferrante Quotes

In the most absolute tranquility or in the midst of tumultuous events, in safety or danger, in innocence or corruption, we are a crowd of others. And this crowd is certainly a blessing for literature.

Elena Ferrante

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• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Opportunity
  • Space
  • Eyes

• I don't even have my own computer.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Own
  • Computer
  • My Own

• Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Genius
  • Rich

• We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Voice
  • Africa

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Storytelling

• The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Think
  • Cancer

• Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Nature

• I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

  

  Gary Owen
  • Kids
  • Black
  • Always

• I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Church

• I'm a fan of action movies.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Will
  • Just
  • Meet

• National Socialism had created a new type of political criminals: criminals who had not committed a crime.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Political

• Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Good

• Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.

  

  Ty Warner
  • World
  • Kids
  • Today

• It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

  

  Eric Fellner

• You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Literature

• Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Literature
  • Gypsy
  • Picturesque

• I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • Family
  • Age

• I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Smell

• I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Teenager
  • Obsessed
  • Led Zeppeline

• In the most absolute tranquility or in the midst of tumultuous events, in safety or danger, in innocence or corruption, we are a crowd of others. And this crowd is certainly a blessing for literature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Literature
  • Blessing
  • Events