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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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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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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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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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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To carry out any project to which you attach your own name you have to love yourself.
