Elena Ferrante Quotes
May I point out something? You always use true and truthfully, when you speak and when you write. Or you say: unexpectedly. But when do people ever speak truthfully and when do things ever happen unexpectedly? You know better than I that it’s all a fraud and that one thing follows another and then another. I don’t do anything truthfully anymore, Lenù. And I’ve learned to pay attention to things. Only idiots believe that they happen unexpectedly.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
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My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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May I point out something? You always use true and truthfully, when you speak and when you write. Or you say: unexpectedly. But when do people ever speak truthfully and when do things ever happen unexpectedly? You know better than I that it’s all a fraud and that one thing follows another and then another. I don’t do anything truthfully anymore, Lenù. And I’ve learned to pay attention to things. Only idiots believe that they happen unexpectedly.
