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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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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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 human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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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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The older I get, the better I was.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to care about your work, but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.
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That was really strange, having to come up with a new surname [when my agent deemed my birth name too hard for people to remember]. After a long decision making process, me and my parents agreed on Lara because that was the name that sounded the most beautiful.
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No one depended anymore on my care and, finally, even I was no longer a burden to myself.
