Elena Ferrante Quotes

Lila was happy, and she was drawing me deeper and deeper into her fierce happiness, because she had suddenly found, perhaps without even realizing it, an opportunity that allowed her to portray the fury she directed against herself, the insurgence, perhaps for the first time in her life, of the need - and here the verb used by Michele was appropriate - to erase herself.

Elena Ferrante

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• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Think
  • Me

• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Common
  • Citizenship

• We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Fear

• I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Me

• When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • World
  • Difficult
  • More

• I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Serious
  • Competition
  • Injuries

• When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Me
  • Problems
  • Working

• Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

  

  Edie Adams
  • Tell
  • Here
  • Well

• I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Spring

• Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• I worked in a comic shop for five years, and the amount of titles I could excitedly recommend to teenage girls was pretty abysmal for awhile.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Pretty

• In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Home
  • She
  • Remember

• I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • School
  • Attention

• I've done some movies before when you have months, or three weeks at least, to train and to learn choreography.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Done

• I don't play video games.

  

  Clive Owen

• I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Good

• It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Nature
  • Collapses

• I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friendship

• I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Best

• Lila was happy, and she was drawing me deeper and deeper into her fierce happiness, because she had suddenly found, perhaps without even realizing it, an opportunity that allowed her to portray the fury she directed against herself, the insurgence, perhaps for the first time in her life, of the need - and here the verb used by Michele was appropriate - to erase herself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Realizing