Elena Ferrante Quotes
It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
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It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.
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Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
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We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons.
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It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.
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It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
