Eleanor Catton Quotes

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

Eleanor Catton

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• People take things so seriously.

  

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• I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

  

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• I've never been a partier.

  

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• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  

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• I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

  

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• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

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• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  

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• When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.

  

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• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

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• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

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• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

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• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  

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• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  

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• People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

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• As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

  

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• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

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• I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

  

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• President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.

  

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• Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.

  

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• Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.

  

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• I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Children
  • Reading