Louise Erdrich Quotes
Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is more than one thing.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
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I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
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Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla.
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I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.
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As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.
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The atmosphere in the school lunchroom is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.
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Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.
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But two are walking apart forever And wave their hands for a mute farewell.
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Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.
