Elena Ferrante Quotes
To carry out any project to which you attach your own name you have to love yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I won't join another band again.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
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Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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To carry out any project to which you attach your own name you have to love yourself.
