Louise Erdrich Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn't really feel like a job, either: it's a dream or a passion or something.
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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.
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I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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If you look at the better teams in the league when they get a team down they finish out the game. That's kind of what separates us from those teams right now is playing 48-minute games.
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There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
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I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
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I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.
