Elena Ferrante Quotes
That my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn’t books that made people good but good people who made some good books.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
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The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.
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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.
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Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
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I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.
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Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. (p. 84)
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That my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn’t books that made people good but good people who made some good books.
