Louise Erdrich Quotes
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Having a diverse council is necessary in order to make sure that all constituents are represented well.
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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
