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 have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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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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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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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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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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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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Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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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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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
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Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.
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All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
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Stop it, who cares about this Dostoyevsky, who gives a damn about the Karamazovs.
