Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman -
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani -
I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
Tavi Gevinson -
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
Gabriel Mann -
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
Laura Mvula -
There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I've never abandoned the novel.
V. S. Naipaul -
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
Aaron Eckhart -
I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
Zara Cox -
Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
Zhang Yimou -
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.
Lana Del Rey -
The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'
Hans Haacke
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The next thing which surprised us very much, is that both for Julia sets and even more so for the Mandelbrot set, the complication was not, how to say, arbitrary, and almost everybody found the impression that these shapes were hauntingly beautiful. These shapes resulted from the most ridiculous transformation, z
Benoit Mandelbrot -
I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.
Jason Boyd -
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
Lydia Lunch -
Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.
Elizabeth Berg -
The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.
Danny McBride -
I am a big advocate of female entrepreneurs. I do what I can to advise and help them along in their careers.
Blac Chyna
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The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
Mary Kay Blakely -
When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.
Anthony McCarten -
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain -
We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
Carl Honore -
There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.
Matthew Lesko -
There is a poverty that makes us all cruel.
Elena Ferrante