Elena Ferrante Quotes
A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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I just want to stay professional.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
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In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
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You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.
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When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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The freeways create economic and racial borders in Los Angeles. South of Interstate 10 is one group of people, west of the 10 another, and south of the 405 North yet another.
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One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
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A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
