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
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• 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
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• 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
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• 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
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• 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
  • Me
  • Planet
  • Glow

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• 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
  • Man
  • Style
  • Confidence

• 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
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Sports

• 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
  • People
  • Humanity

• 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
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Space

• I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Great
  • Control
  • Dance

• I make sure that I take good care of me.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Good

• I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

  

  Anna Held
  • Eyes

• You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Respect

• I'm an athlete in general.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Athlete

• The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • World
  • Done

• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Power
  • Hands
  • Few

• The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Justice

• I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

  

  David Wilcock
  • Writing
  • May
  • Suffering

• 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
  • Writing
  • Lives
  • Speech