Eleanor Catton Quotes
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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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Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.
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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
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The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
