Louise Erdrich Quotes

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

Louise Erdrich

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• Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Cool
  • Baby
  • Loved

• I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Myself
  • Goals
  • Season

• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Hand
  • Enough
  • U.S.

• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • May
  • Future
  • Man

• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• On the consumer level, the products developed by entrepreneurs help to provide more and better options that make life easier and more enjoyable in the everyday lives of the public.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Life
  • Help
  • Better

• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Happy
  • Reality
  • Happiness

• I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Pain
  • Depression
  • Research

• I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Die
  • Film
  • Animation

• There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • You
  • Vibe

• I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Always
  • Better
  • Sounds

• I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Takes

• One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Happiness

• As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.1.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Business

• 'What, concretely, is Enlightenment?' 'Seeing Reality as it is,' said the Master. 'Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?' 'Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is.' 'What's the difference?' 'The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Was that, then, the way we do things? 'Not knowing'- was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Life
  • Profound

• My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Strong
  • Communication

• I work. And I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Thinking
  • Freak

• A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

  

  Peter Mullan

• The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Red
  • Bird

• It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • School
  • Kids
  • Popular

• I have to write. I have to be an artist.

  

  Louise Erdrich