Eleanor Catton Quotes
What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them...
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Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.
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Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.
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What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.
