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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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'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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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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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.
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The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.
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I am a big advocate of female entrepreneurs. I do what I can to advise and help them along in their careers.
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It took me forever to leave Chicago. I went to Columbia College because I wasn't ready to leave! My professors had to kick me in the pants to move to Los Angeles.
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A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel -
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
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There is a poverty that makes us all cruel.
