Elena Ferrante Quotes
I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
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Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
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I started with golf because I saw my brothers play, I was always watching them. It was my life. Growing up, we always played competitions like chipping, hitting.
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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
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What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.
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I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.
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About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
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If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!
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Real-time feedback and coaching promotes learning. When feedback is connected to compensation, feedback is muted, distorted, and given less frequently.
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And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
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I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
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Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
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This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
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I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.
