Elena Ferrante Quotes
We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.
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We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
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He is an interesting player - short back legs.
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Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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I'd love to have a rule where if you play on Monday night, you have to play at home the following Sunday. It's tough to operate on a short work week like that.
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Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
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If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
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We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.
