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'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

• Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Business
  • Simple
  • motivation

• Just a good shot right on the right spot in the rib cage.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Right
  • Shot
  • Rib Cage

• The music works by itself, but you can change the perception of it by the way you dress, the way you move, the things you say, the things you don't say. And when you realize that everything is staged, then nothing is staged. There's a kind of liberation to that.

  

  Nils Frahm
  • Music
  • Stage
  • Liberation

• Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

  

  Peter York
  • Architecture
  • Jewellery
  • Chandeliers

• When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Promise
  • Deal
  • Check

• 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