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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The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.
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Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.
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I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.
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The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
