Louise Erdrich Quotes
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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I just want to do my job.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker. They really wanted to get all women out of the homes and into the workforce. And again and again, they taught that the only fulfilling lifestyle was to be in the workforce reporting to a boss instead of being in the home reporting to a husband.
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'Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional - so it's easy to get typecast.
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Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.
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I like to eat. So it's often a battle to try and control that.
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I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
