Elena Ferrante Quotes
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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We laid the foundation before we went to a major label.
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones.
