Louise Erdrich Quotes
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
-
Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
-
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
-
Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
-
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
-
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
-
I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
-
You have to find out how to become the character.
-
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
-
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
-
And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
-
I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
-
The devil made me do it.
-
My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
-
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
-
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
-
There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
-
On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
-
Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'
-
Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.
-
There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
-
Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself!
-
The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.
-
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.
