Elena Ferrante Quotes
I’ve never been in analysis. But it’s rare that one saves oneself from a rickety landing at the top of a building by throwing oneself down the stairwell.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.
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I'm always working. I work wherever I am.
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I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
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My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
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You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.
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I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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In the utter peace and stillness the world seemed holding its breath, a little apprehensively, drawing near to the fire to warm itself. There was none of that sense of urgeful, pushing life that robs even a calm spring day of the sense of silence; life was over and the year was just waiting, harboring its strength for the final storms and turmoil of its death. The warmth and the color of maturity was there, exultant and burning, visible to the eyes, but the prophecy of decay was felt in a faint shiver of cold at morning and evening and a tiny sigh of the elms at midnight when a wandering ghost of a wind plucked a little of their gold away from them.
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I’ve never been in analysis. But it’s rare that one saves oneself from a rickety landing at the top of a building by throwing oneself down the stairwell.
