Elena Ferrante Quotes
The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise our experiences and make them presentable, in fiction it’s possible to sweep away all the veils—in fact, perhaps, it’s a duty.Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
Zoe Kazan -
I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
Barbara G. Walker -
I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
Jacinda Barrett -
You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Parker Posey -
In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
Yair Lapid
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
Rafael Nadal -
Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
Rahman Baba -
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
Yolanda Adams -
I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
Wayne Newton -
In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
C. V. Raman -
Democrats hate Democrats most of all.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer -
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
Salman Rushdie
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I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
Ernest Cline -
I am always relaxed.
Sam Shepard -
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
Charles Kennedy -
I like to play football, read some books, study.
Andrew Luck -
The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise our experiences and make them presentable, in fiction it’s possible to sweep away all the veils—in fact, perhaps, it’s a duty.
Elena Ferrante