Eleanor Catton Quotes
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.
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When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
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For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite turn out that way.
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The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
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In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
