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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
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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.
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People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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.
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How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?
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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.
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Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
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I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.
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The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.
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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.
