Louise Erdrich Quotes
I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I want the single player experience.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
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When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me.
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I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.
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Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.
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Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.
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I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.
