Louise Erdrich Quotes
You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
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I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
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I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.
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I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.
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Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
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In my practice I use neurofeedback primarily to help with the hyperarousal, confusion, and concentration problems of people who suffer from developmental trauma. However, it has also shown good results for numerous issues and conditions that go beyond the scope of this book, including relieving tension headaches, improving cognitive functioning following a traumatic brain injury, reducing anxiety and panic attacks, learning to deepen meditation states, treating autism, improving seizure control, self-regulation in mood disorders, and more.
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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
