Eleanor Catton Quotes
One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the quality of their thought is very closely identified and analysed.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
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Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.
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People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
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People gotta wash dey hands a cuppa times a day!
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A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
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One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the quality of their thought is very closely identified and analysed.
