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
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
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
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
If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
Beeban Kidron
I can be a lady - surprise!
Carnie Wilson
Wilson Phillips
Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.
Peggy Whitson
When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie - went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed... Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was.
Jason Blum
The first thing Ravi Babu asked when we met was, did I watch horror movies? I told him it took me years to get over Ram Gopal Varma's 'Raat!'
Harshvardhan Rane
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
Hallie Ephron
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
David Lindsay-Abaire
Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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
