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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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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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'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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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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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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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 am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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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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I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.
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I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
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For children parents are always a burden. But parents who draw too much attention to themselves are intolerable.
