Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.
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I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.
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We have performed promotion and press but we have never been able to fit it into the schedule.
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Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.
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Hell,’ I tell her, ‘is where all the interesting people are.
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But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
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We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.
