Elena Ferrante Quotes

She was struggling to find, from inside the cage in which she was enclosed, a way of being all her own, that was still obscure to her.

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• To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

  

  Valentino Rossi
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• It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
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• Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • School
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• Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Life
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• Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

  

  Oliver Gaspirtz
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• For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.

  

  Javier Solana
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  • Long Time
  • Reverse

• People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
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• The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

  

  George Eliot
  • Possibilities
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  • Analogies

• There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

  

  George Eliot
  • Bird
  • Broke
  • Glass

• How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Wish
  • Correcting
  • Love Letter

• When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

  

  Gerrit Smith
  • Slavery
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• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Humanity
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• Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • Looks
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• Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Nonviolence
  • Negative Word

• She was struggling to find, from inside the cage in which she was enclosed, a way of being all her own, that was still obscure to her.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Obscure
  • Struggling
  • Cage