Elena Ferrante Quotes
Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
Elena Ferrante
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
E. L. Doctorow
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
T. J. Miller
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
Edmund Phelps
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
Baz Luhrmann
Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.
Wale
Our life is full of empty space.
Umberto Eco
Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.
Warren Moon
Oh, things are frequently what they seem,And this is wisdom's crown:Only the game fish swims upstream,But the sensible fish swims down.
Ogden Nash
We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.
Bill Pullman
You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.
Jake Arrieta
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
Samuel Alexander
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
Johan Huizinga
I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.
Ellen DeGeneres
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
E. B. White
Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
Elena Ferrante
