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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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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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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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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People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
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I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.
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By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.
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I'm used to putting so many things aside to be able to compete.
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
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Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.
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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?
