Elena Ferrante Quotes
She was a woman who liked to be busy. If she needed something, she picked up the telephone and, link by link, put together the chain that led to her goal. She knew how to ask in such a way that saying no was impossible. And she crossed ideological borders confidently, she respected no hierarchies, she tracked down cleaning women, bureaucrats, industrialists, intellectuals, ministers, and she addressed all with cordial detachment, as if the favor she was about to ask she was in fact already doing for them.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.
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I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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I'm always focused.
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My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely entwined. Opinions vary on the answer. ..Bertrand Russell acknowledged..'Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little.' ..Mathematics may be indispensable to physics, but it obviously does not constitute physics.
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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
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There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
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She was a woman who liked to be busy. If she needed something, she picked up the telephone and, link by link, put together the chain that led to her goal. She knew how to ask in such a way that saying no was impossible. And she crossed ideological borders confidently, she respected no hierarchies, she tracked down cleaning women, bureaucrats, industrialists, intellectuals, ministers, and she addressed all with cordial detachment, as if the favor she was about to ask she was in fact already doing for them.
