Elena Ferrante Quotes

Why would anyone be interested in my little personal story if we can do without Homer's or Shakespeare's? Someone who truly loves literature is like a person of faith. The believer knows very well that there is nothing at all at the bureau of vital statistics about the Jesus that truly counts for him.

Elena Ferrante

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• There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Going

• It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • Want
  • Film

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Prayer

• The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

  

  Wayne White
  • Purpose
  • Leave
  • Drive

• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Fear
  • Try
  • Self

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Culture

• I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Think
  • Nobody
  • Budget

• I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • School
  • Things
  • Clothes

• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Bad
  • Corruption
  • Dictatorship

• There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Time
  • Music
  • Dad

• There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones. I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. I think that's happening. With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Privacy

• Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Different
  • Why
  • Kids

• Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Singing
  • Feels
  • Jazz

• I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Mom
  • Holy
  • Nights

• You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

  

  Charles Haley
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Success

• When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

  

  John Marshall
  • Nature
  • Law

• It is important to rise above rationalizations and make the best choices.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Important
  • Choices

• Why would anyone be interested in my little personal story if we can do without Homer's or Shakespeare's? Someone who truly loves literature is like a person of faith. The believer knows very well that there is nothing at all at the bureau of vital statistics about the Jesus that truly counts for him.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Faith
  • Literature
  • Interested