Louise Erdrich Quotes
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
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JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.
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As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.
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Whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom...
