Elena Ferrante Quotes
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
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Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
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... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.
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...the dreams of the head ended up beneath the feet.
