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.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Men
  • Look
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Cool
  • Statistics
  • Be kind

• 'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Been
  • Companion

• I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Color

• I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • True
  • You
  • Yourself

• I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Like

• An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Pretty
  • Team
  • Serious

• 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.

  

  Chris DeWolfe
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Design

• 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.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Child
  • I Want
  • I

• I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • True
  • Prayer
  • Believer

• Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Nature
  • Shapes
  • Screaming

• I am going to take a long, hard look at when we think we should start up.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The answer is, of course, to simplify, to prioritize, and in some cases, to use a well-known phrase, "Just say no!" But actually doing it may prove to be one of the real challenges in our complicated, overheated lives.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Real
  • May
  • Challenges

• I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Competition
  • Tough

• I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Deal
  • Readers