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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This game isn't real complicated, in that if you turn the ball over you're going to get beat. Those guys quarterbacks each need to be more responsible with the ball.
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This song is called 'Alice's Restaurant'. It's about Alice. And the Restaurant. But Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song. That's why I called this song 'Alice's Restaurant.'
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If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
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It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.
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If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
