Eleanor Catton Quotes
A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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I love New York. Love it.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
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People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair.
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As has been stated, the purpose of money is to split barter into two parts so that the seller is free to find his source of supply later and elsewhere. This is the sole purpose of money. Any effort to use money to serve another purpose is perversive; and this statement condemns the entire managed money philosophy.
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A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.
