Elena Ferrante Quotes
I tend toward an expansive sentence that has a cold surface and, visible underneath it, a magma of unbearable heat. I want readers to know from the first lines what they will have to deal with.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
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An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.
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There's established gaming IP that's coming from console to mobile, which is interesting. Everything is converging a little bit toward mobile devices in the living room. On the casual side, the graphics and animation and game design and all of those variables are improving.
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.
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Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.
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I am going to take a long, hard look at when we think we should start up.
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I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.
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Kendra returned her attention to the frantic parade of trees. Her parents were leaving on a seventeen-day Scandinavian cruise with all the aunts and uncles on her mother’s side. They were all going for free. Not because they’d won a contest. They were going on a cruise because Kendra’s grandparents had asphyxiated.
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All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.
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I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
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I tend toward an expansive sentence that has a cold surface and, visible underneath it, a magma of unbearable heat. I want readers to know from the first lines what they will have to deal with.
