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
  • Great
  • Important
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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
  • 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.

  

  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
  • Long
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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
  • Life
  • Ocean
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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
  • Action
  • Long Time
  • Reverse

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

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Actors
  • Clothes

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

  

  George Eliot
  • Possibilities
  • Hopeful
  • 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
  • Reasoning
  • Advocacy

• The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Men
  • Famous

• “Am I truly such a villain? Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Size
  • Villain

• Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

  

  Wanda Landowska
  • Music
  • Moments
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• That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Middle-class

• At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

  

  Joseph Kanon
  • Job
  • Degree
  • Publishing

• 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