Elena Ferrante Quotes
For children parents are always a burden. But parents who draw too much attention to themselves are intolerable.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
-
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.
-
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
-
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
-
I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
-
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.
-
But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
-
China will be the answer to Japan's problems.
-
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
-
Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
-
In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
-
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.
-
A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
-
When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.
-
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
-
It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.
-
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
-
For children parents are always a burden. But parents who draw too much attention to themselves are intolerable.
