Elena Ferrante Quotes
No one depended anymore on my care and, finally, even I was no longer a burden to myself.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.
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We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
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We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.
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Governor Tinubu’s criminal case is of international dimension.
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I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
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The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
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But I’ve brought you to the snow, and the snow is the beginning and the end of everything, everyone knows that.
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No one depended anymore on my care and, finally, even I was no longer a burden to myself.
