Elena Ferrante Quotes
I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.
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All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.
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The upside is that the army was refusing to prohibit, you know, big hairy men from going into the ladies' locker room. And I thought, 'Well, you know, maybe finally this will cut down on girls in the marines.'
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I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.
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I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
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I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.
