Louise Erdrich Quotes
I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.
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The poet who writes 'free' verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.
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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
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If the Senate passes it, we'll pass it.
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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
