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.
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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.
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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!
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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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.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
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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?
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The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.
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Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'
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I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.
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I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.
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My manager always preaches golf comes first.
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I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.
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I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
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You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.
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The shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night.
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I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.
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If we are to survive the Atomic Age, we must have something to live by, to live on, and to live for. We must stand aside from the world's conspiracy of fear and hate and grasp once more the great monosyllables of life: faith, hope and love. Men must live by these if they live at all under the crushing weight of history.
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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.
