Elena Ferrante Quotes
I thought: yes, Lila is right, the beauty of things is a trick, the sky is the throne of fear; I'm alive, now, here, ten steps from the water, and it is not beautiful, it's terrifying; along with this beach, the sea, the swarm of animal forms, I am part of the universal terror.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
Daniel Craig
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Eduardo Chillida
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
Hansie Cronje
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
Jack Kerouac
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Eckhart Tolle
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
Kate Forsyth
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No one remembers who came in second.
Walter Hagen
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Writers are so important.
Adam Driver
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
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After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
Nancy Sinatra
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
Pankaj Mishra
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If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
Kat Graham
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I make sure that I take good care of me.
Jerry Lewis
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
Chogyam Trungpa
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There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in a way that isn't ego centric. For whatever reason, musicians are just bizarrely composed humans. I think I'm living in the middle of a miracle.
David Wallace Crowder
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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
William Wordsworth
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I thought: yes, Lila is right, the beauty of things is a trick, the sky is the throne of fear; I'm alive, now, here, ten steps from the water, and it is not beautiful, it's terrifying; along with this beach, the sea, the swarm of animal forms, I am part of the universal terror.
Elena Ferrante