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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Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
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My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
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“It was a good shot, but he didn’t execute it very well.”
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I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.
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No one depended anymore on my care and, finally, even I was no longer a burden to myself.
