Eleanor Catton Quotes
It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
Eleanor Catton
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
Eddi Reader
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
Francia Raisa
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
Calvin Johnson
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
Sam Worthington
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
Edmund White
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
Vicki Lawrence
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The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
Laura Ingraham
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Pablo Casals
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
Adam Ferrara
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That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.
Idina Menzel
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Standing beside each one of our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines is a loving, supportive, and dedicated family whose sacrifice is a true service to our great nation.
Elise Stefanik
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'
J. F. C. Fuller
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
Laila Ali
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang
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It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels like it's more than just a movie or entertainment. Even though the riots were one of the most pivotal riots in civil rights history, especially for the LGBT community, I knew surprisingly very little about them. You don't learn about Stonewall in schools. It's a bit gross really! So it certainly felt like something that was quite important.
Jeremy Irvine
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It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
Eleanor Catton