Louise Erdrich Quotes
When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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I take care of my voice. I don't go to loud discos where I have to shout; I don't have iced drinks.
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When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.
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I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
