Eleanor Catton Quotes
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.
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The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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There are unwritten rules to Facebook: People are using it to build their personas, and when they share something, they usually do so because they think it will in some way benefit others. So when we speak as brands on Facebook, we try to operate within those same parameters.
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I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
