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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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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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers would not stop for me after dark; white girls jogged to keep ahead of my shadow thrown at their heels by the amber street lamps. Part of me didn't blame them, but most of me was hurt.
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Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.
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We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
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I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
