Elena Ferrante Quotes
Is it possible that in all those years she left me nothing of herself, or, worse, that I didn’t want to keep anything of her? It is.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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No one is India.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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...and if you want to see a picture of Nils.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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Is it possible that in all those years she left me nothing of herself, or, worse, that I didn’t want to keep anything of her? It is.
