Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I'm always looking for new talent.
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Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.
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It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
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A working class hero is something to be.
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The revolution will be televised.
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People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.
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This avoids the holiday election that nobody wants.
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Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.
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The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.
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So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.
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Walnuts are so rich. I also love that you can chew them for five minutes. Then I eat a couple of golden raisins as a palate cleanser because they are really tart, and then more walnuts. It's a great snack for me.
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Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
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I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
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Pandemic, Pangaea, Panacea, Panoply. Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
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Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
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I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.
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...and my ego gladly avoids leaning out the window.
