Elena Ferrante Quotes
You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
Elena Ferrante
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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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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz
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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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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.
Sam Walter Foss
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
Jack Lemmon
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
Rakul Preet Singh
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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.
Vera Wang
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I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.
Lindsey Vonn
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In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh, I don't need this right now. I don't need commitment. I can do well on my own. I'm independent,' and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.
Grace Martine Tandon
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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Socrates
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
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Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.
Rowan Williams
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You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
Elena Ferrante
