Elena Ferrante Quotes
As I traveled toward Milan, I discovered that, with Lila set aside, I didn’t know how to give myself substance except by modeling myself on Nino. I was incapable of being a model for myself. Without him I no longer had a nucleus from which to expand outside the neighborhood and through the world, I was a pile of debris.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
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If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people - brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.
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As I traveled toward Milan, I discovered that, with Lila set aside, I didn’t know how to give myself substance except by modeling myself on Nino. I was incapable of being a model for myself. Without him I no longer had a nucleus from which to expand outside the neighborhood and through the world, I was a pile of debris.
