Elena Ferrante Quotes
To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.
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I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.
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At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
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Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.
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I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.
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I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
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I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.
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One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.
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On the France's Indochina involvement: 'They were engaged in the most dangerous of all activities – deceiving themselves...France was engaged in a task beyond her strength, indeed, beyond the strength of any external power unless it was acting in support of the dominant local will and purpose.'
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I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.
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Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
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It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.
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To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.
