Eleanor Catton Quotes
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
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I don't really love writing. I don't love the feeling of starting a new file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.
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Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
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I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
