Elena Ferrante Quotes
You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Kajol
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
Zach Anner
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I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik
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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.
Abigail Washburn
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Youssou N'Dour
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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.
Campbell Scott
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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.
Ida B. Wells
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
Frances McDormand
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford Frick
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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.
Valerie Plame
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My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'
Jayma Mays
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Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.
Nicholas Sparks
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The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they’ve been at other times.
Angus Wilson
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
Maurice Sendak
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
Pat Brown
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You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
Elena Ferrante
