Eleanor Catton Quotes
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
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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 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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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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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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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
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I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.
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We started out on the Internet, so I've been reading what people had to say about stuff since we were getting mean comments on iFilm, before we even had our site going. People are really, really rough on the web - that's their right, that's the whole point of it - but sometimes it can be a little bit brutal.
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I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
