Eleanor Catton Quotes

The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.

Eleanor Catton

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• I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Myself

• When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Base

• For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Working
  • Process

• Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • People
  • Believe
  • Character

• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Long
  • Run
  • Spoon

• I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Kind
  • Everything
  • Imprint

• I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • First
  • Walk
  • Interior

• As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • Good
  • Value

• Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• My painting does not come from the easel.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Come

• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' and 'You stink! Go shower!'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • Love

• I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Follow

• Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Good
  • Money

• Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Boss

• It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Wisdom

• I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

  

  Leos Carax
  • Pretty

• That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Children
  • Earth
  • Dog

• A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is a saint, a spiritually born child of God, a divine masterpiece, a child of light, a citizen of heaven.

  

  Neil T Anderson
  • Christian
  • Heaven
  • Identity

• Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Service
  • Information
  • Profound

• The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.

  

  Eleanor Catton