Elena Ferrante Quotes
You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
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I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.
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You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
