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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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 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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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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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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'Twenty One Pilots' is a play by Arthur Miller, who also wrote 'All My Sons.' It's about a guy who's creating and developing parts for airplanes in war time, when it comes to his attention that some of these parts were faulty.
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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
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I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
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I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.
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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.
