Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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I think it's important to wear clothing that means something to you, and so I always try to make sure I'm wearing at least one item that has a personal meaning to me.
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I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.
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Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'
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The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
