Eleanor Catton Quotes
From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
Eleanor Catton
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
E. P. Thompson
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
Dalai Lama
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
T. D. Jakes
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
Ed Oxenbould
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
Dan Aykroyd
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I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
Sammy Sosa
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
Zach Cregger
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Thus our duties to animals are indirectly duties to humanity.
Immanuel Kant
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'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.
Jerry Ferrara
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A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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We all have a weakness for beauty.
Albert Camus
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From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
Eleanor Catton
