Elena Ferrante Quotes
But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
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My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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I like being unconventional.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
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Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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I think technology is changing and growing, and the best approach to have is to be self-aware and aware of what's going on around you and also have some idea of who you are and how to make that ever-changing climate work in your favor.
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But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.
