Louise Erdrich Quotes
Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.
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Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.
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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
