Elena Ferrante Quotes
I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.
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Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.
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It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.
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I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.
