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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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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My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.
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Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.
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I wish I had more time to write.
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The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.
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For children parents are always a burden. But parents who draw too much attention to themselves are intolerable.
