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 think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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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'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.
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When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.
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I understand when people think dressage is boring. But while your standard horse is like driving a Fiesta, our horses are like driving Formula One cars. I can't breathe without the horse reacting. You are training another being to become really responsive and athletic and powerful.
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People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.
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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.
