Elena Ferrante Quotes
When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.
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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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(On his Catholic faith): 'Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life.'
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Well it's bulls and blood,It's dust and mud,It's the roar of a Sunday crowd.It's the white in his knuckles,The gold in the buckle,He'll win the next go 'round.It's boots and chaps,It's cowboy hats,It's spurs and latigo.It's the ropes and the reins,And the joy and the pain,And they call the thing rodeo.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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I'm 27, and I have no idea what I am doing half the time. I am just trying the best I can, and I think that speaks to a lot of other women out there.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.
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When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.
