Elena Ferrante Quotes
The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.
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…all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood
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No fixed capital can yield any revenue but by means of a circulating capital.
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I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.
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Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
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Nothing would do more to improve Israel's security or its relations with its neighbors than to bring about a sovereign and contiguous Palestinian state alongside a secure, democratic, Jewish Israel.
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This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organising a mass massacre of mankind.
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Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
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I'm very protective of my heart
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The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.
