Louise Erdrich Quotes
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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We don't want John Wick to retire again; we're glad he's back in the game. We want a sequel or a prequel. There's a lot of fertile ground to cover.
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It started when i heard your song of love Pouring down like honey from above I started to spin, i started to move Just like a needle that is sticking through the same old groove
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It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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I enjoyed playing the dual role of an actor and producer.
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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
