Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
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I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!
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Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.
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We'll kind of study the film, ... but I think he's got a lot of poise in there. I think he carries himself well. I think he's an accurate passer, but we're still getting to know him.
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Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.
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People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.
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Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.
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As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.
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You can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today.
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One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.
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Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.
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It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
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If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
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If we could read the minds of animals we would find only truths.
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A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
