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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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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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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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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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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This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.
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My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"
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In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.
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No one depended anymore on my care and, finally, even I was no longer a burden to myself.
