Louise Erdrich Quotes
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
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I don't want to be too power-hungry.
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“Fair is the stick by which parents of more than one child are driven.”
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Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
