Elena Ferrante Quotes
Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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I'm such a huge 'Arrested Development' fan.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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Fate is written in the face.
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I'm sure that everyone who goes into fashion always dreams of having a perfume, since it completes the brand and exposes it in a different way.
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Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
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Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity.
