Louise Erdrich Quotes
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.
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As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.
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No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.
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Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.
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In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
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As a former EPA administrator under a Republican president, I recognize that it is easy to hate regulations in general. After all, regulatory action causes people to spend money or change behavior, often to solve problems they do not believe exist.
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The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
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Social media overwhelms me.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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I learned the biggest lesson just watching Ed McMahon, watching him watch Mr. Carson's monologue.
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We love writing hit songs. That thrills us.
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I want to relate to my fans as much as possible.
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I really appreciate the opportunity to play on the All-Star court.
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I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can. I've played the Edinburgh Festival twice, and I get the train across the Forth Bridge to Lochgelly, just to see it.
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And hold up to the sun my little taper.
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
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There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
