Elena Ferrante Quotes
For children parents are always a burden. But parents who draw too much attention to themselves are intolerable.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
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I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.
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I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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China will be the answer to Japan's problems.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
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I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.
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I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
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Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
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Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God; the sons of. the Irish and the daughters of the chieftains are to be seen as monks and virgins of Christ.
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I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.
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For children parents are always a burden. But parents who draw too much attention to themselves are intolerable.
