Elena Ferrante Quotes
What’s got into me? Do I want children? Do I want to be a mamma, nursing and singing lullabies? Marriage plus pregnancy? And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.
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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
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I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
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Morley has a gift for doing the kind of story that you think only Morley could do, or that certainly Morley could do better than anyone else.
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I grew up eating anything at any time and going straight on court. So I'm not really that picky.
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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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To be very blunt, I am not really that concerned with what labels get associated with somebody.
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I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.
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What’s got into me? Do I want children? Do I want to be a mamma, nursing and singing lullabies? Marriage plus pregnancy? And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?
