Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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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.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
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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.
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The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'
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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
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I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.
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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
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Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.
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South Korea's investment in Russia has not been smooth, ... Korea had planned to carry out 126 investment projects worth 273 million, but in reality, only 91 projects worth 137 million are under way.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
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There is a poverty that makes us all cruel.
