Elena Ferrante Quotes
So afterward, when you no longer love him, it bothers you just to think that you once wanted him.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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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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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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So afterward, when you no longer love him, it bothers you just to think that you once wanted him.
