Elena Ferrante Quotes
I was stunned. Fernando looked out, still screaming horrible threats at his daughter. He had thrown her like a thing.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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'Aid from heaven you may have,' he said, 'by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.'
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It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.
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I remember sitting on the back of the bus on the first day of the Social Experiment tour with my face in my hands. I emptied out my bank account, and before I did that tour, that was the number one thing I said I'd never do. I'll never empty out my savings.
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Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.
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All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
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I didn't get a normal school life, and my sisters have told me so many fun stories about college, so I'm just so excited.
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I am passionate about spreading awareness about Sri Lankan food.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.
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The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather a combination
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I was stunned. Fernando looked out, still screaming horrible threats at his daughter. He had thrown her like a thing.
