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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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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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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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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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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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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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'm an inventor.
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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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Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather, he will try to discover the correct idea behind the inadequate expression. This is one of the most important principles in the whole of the art of teaching.
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As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.
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I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.
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The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
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A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
