Louise Erdrich Quotes
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
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I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
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You put a car on the road which may be driving by the letter of the law, but compared to the surrounding road users, it's acting very conservatively. This can lead to situations where the autonomous car is a bit of a fish out of water.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until I sit down to do it.
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If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.
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So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
