Elena Ferrante Quotes
I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
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My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
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The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
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I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
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It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.
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You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.
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If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?
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Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
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I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.
