Louise Erdrich Quotes
My mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.
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It is a great blessing to have light in our lives - a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that illuminates our understanding, light we can follow with confidence and perfect trust.
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What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
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My mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.
