Elena Ferrante Quotes

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila’s suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.

Elena Ferrante

• Relationship
• Suffering
• Friendship
• Human Beings
• Traps

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• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Hate
  • Food
  • Down

• When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • God
  • Friend

• When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • She
  • Movie

• Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was - she's a very - she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Good
  • She

• I try to share a lot of my life on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, everything. I really like interacting with fans on Twitter and answering their questions and just getting to know them because it's cool for them to have people who are connecting with my music reach out and show interest.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Up

• While it can be challenging for women with disruptive, technology-based ideas to acquire significant funding, in my experience, once I was able to raise that funding, I was met with droves of people offering to help me fulfill my dreams.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • People
  • Women
  • Experience

• I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Awesome
  • Airplane

• If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

  

  Kelly Ripa
  • House

• I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Simple

• I.B.M. was not really bringing their best technologies to India. They were dumping old machines in the country that had been thrown away in the rest of the world 10 years before.

  

  Azim Premji
  • World
  • Country
  • Rest

• The Republican effort to make the September 11th attack on Benghazi into a scandal is really about one thing and one thing only: Hillary Clinton.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Effort
  • September

• I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Different
  • Single
  • Picture

• There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Women
  • Empathy

• You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin

• If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

• The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • People
  • World
  • History

• He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wise
  • Others
  • Himself

• I like people who are passionate, who have persevered, and who are clearly humble and not arrogant.

  

  Daniel Schwartz
  • People
  • Humble

• I am not gonna die because some network executive thought I was fat! It's so wrong! It's so wrong that women are asked to live up to this skinny ideal that is totally unattainable. For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila’s suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Relationship
  • Suffering
  • Friendship