Elena Ferrante Quotes
I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
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I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.
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I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
