Elena Ferrante Quotes

Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

Elena Ferrante

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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Fran Drescher
- Good
- Famous
- Restaurants
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

Vanessa Paradis
- Childhood
- Times
- Repeat
In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

Katha Pollitt
- Women
- Power
- End
Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

Naomi Wolf
- Action
- Luck
- Election
I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

Lake Bell
- Work
- College
- Movies
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.

Bette Midler
- Done
- Why
- Opportunity