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.

  

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

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• I've never been a partier.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Ram Kapoor
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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.

  

  Tamra Davis
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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.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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  • Trees

• 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.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Small

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

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
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  • Bat

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

  

  Ralph Peters
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  • Mistake

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

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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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.

  

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
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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.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • People
  • Done
  • Food

• Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hate
  • Proud
  • Enemies

• One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • God
  • Book
  • Dad

• One of my aunties inspires me beause of how easily she shows her emotions, and she isn't ever afraid to cry. My mum, for her work ethic - she might not show her emotions in public very much, but she's a total power woman. My grandma, who watched four of her children die before her, she's a powerhouse.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Work
  • Children
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• The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Goal

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

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Children
  • Reading