Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.
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I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her!
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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 do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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Even if you're playing the most well-known repertoire under the sun, I still believe you have a responsibility as an artist to tell the audience why you're playing it, what are the key aspects to it, and then throw in a bit about its historical context.
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I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
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There's a lot of successful procedural shows that are out there. A lot of them are very successful. I just know there's an audience out there that wants character also.
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Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.
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Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
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It's always nerve-wracking when people say they look up to you or that you're a good role model. It's such a double-edged sword, because you realize you've been put on this pedestal, and you have to make sure that you don't do anything to get torn down.
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I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.
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I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.
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I will never wear something I'm not comfortable in, and if I do, you'll see it in my face, and it'll be a complete faux pas.
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Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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I wish I wasn't eating Cheetos every night. Those are my favorite - I'm addicted to them!
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Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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Stop it, who cares about this Dostoyevsky, who gives a damn about the Karamazovs.
