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
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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.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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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.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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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.
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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.
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The devil made me do it.
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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.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.
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Art, that great undogmatized church.
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In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.
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In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
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Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.
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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.
