Elena Ferrante Quotes
She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them.
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The world is now rapidly advancing in light, in knowledge, in power to use the infinite gifts that the Creator has hidden in nature; but hidden only to stimulate and reward our seeking. Every man can help in this grand progress,-if not by research and positive thought-power, at least by grateful acceptance and realization of what is gained. Look forward!
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I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!
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I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
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You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.
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I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
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She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.
