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'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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.
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As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.
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What we see happening as we move further into the twenty-first century is a sovereign God moving through global events to open doors once closed to the gospel.
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Donald Trump never tells you what he would do. Would he have started a war? Would he have bombed Iran? If he's going to criticize a deal that has been very successful in giving us access to Iranian facilities that we never had before, then he should tell us what his alternative would be.
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The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening.
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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.