Elena Ferrante Quotes

We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.

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• I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Someone

• 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.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Language
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Amazing
  • Fashion
  • Revolution

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Problem
  • Spiritual

• Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• There never was a good war or a bad peace.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Good
  • War
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People
  • Power
  • Stop

• And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.

  

  Bill Hader
  • People
  • Guy
  • Team

• I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Death
  • Design

• Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Walking into the studio making 'Scared Hearts Club,' it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using joy as a weapon because joy is the best weapon against oppression; it's the best weapon against depression.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Important
  • Joy
  • Walking

• Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Modesty
  • Affectation

• I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Children
  • Family
  • Done

• The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Attention

• Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make one in a vacuum like you did with your debut.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Time
  • Band
  • Moving

• Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

  

  Drake
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Cool

• I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • You

• There's nothing I hate more than going to see a movie and thinking, 'That could have been an hour shorter.'

  

  Joe Russo
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Hate

• I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love.

  

  Lisa See
  • People
  • Real
  • Love

• We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.

  

  Elena Ferrante
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