Elena Ferrante Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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I am a just man.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The media is controlled.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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I've just written this six-part sketch comedy series, which I've never done before. And I don't know how to pitch it. Am I supposed to just pick up a camera and put stuff on YouTube? Is that how it works?
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Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you don't choose the right thing to wear underneath!
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I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.
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Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther
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WITHOUT EQUAL. Think about it. These words are even more powerful than the “Will to Win” or “#1”…ponder the feeling one gets from these words. I suggest you, embrace these words forever within your institution. And as you enlarge your circles around the world, make these two words your everyday life breath.
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I had taken away my own time and added it to his to make him more powerful.
