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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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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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 figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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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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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo.
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
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I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.
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Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
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Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
