Louise Erdrich Quotes

I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

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• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Heart
  • Read

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • High
  • Two
  • Expectations

• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Comfortable
  • Explosions

• When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Idea
  • Young
  • Become

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • World
  • Batman
  • Before

• I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Healthy
  • Angel
  • Compromise

• We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Women
  • Proud

• I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Choices

• So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • World
  • She
  • Think

• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Moving

• In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Strong

• When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Space
  • Water
  • Yourself

• What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

  

  Edith Head
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Different

• I don't want to do only blockbusters.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Only
  • Blockbusters

• I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• Sure, I've been on the Tube...I caught it to Eastbourne once.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Caught
  • Tube

• We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feeling
  • Growing
  • Myself

• I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Sense
  • Beliefs