Louise Erdrich Quotes
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Messi is a Playstation.
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I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
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Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
