Elena Ferrante Quotes
I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.Elena Ferrante
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
Ian Mckellen -
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
Pablo Sandoval -
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters -
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
Taraji P. Henson -
It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
Carli Lloyd -
Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.
Dakota Johnson
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
Patrick Ewing -
I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
Carice van Houten -
I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
Cameron Dokey -
Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
Jackie Robinson -
Pair up in threes.
Yogi Berra -
What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.
Alexander McCall Smith
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I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
Jason Reitman -
I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.
Kelly Reilly -
Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.
Duncan Jones -
Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.
Jens Lekman -
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
Dennis Rodman -
Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
Iggy Pop -
Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
William Stanley Jevons -
We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.
Jud Wilhite -
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
Gautama Buddha -
I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.
Elena Ferrante