Elena Ferrante Quotes
For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I'm pagan.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.
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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
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For several years I had no idea that I had become anorexic. And I'd be at places with people I cared about, but what I was thinking about was how much extra grease was on the pizza or the calories that I knew was in that shake.
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No amount of therapy will take care of a chemical imbalance of the brain.
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I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.
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Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.
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For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.
