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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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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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusionism that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
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Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
