Eleanor Catton Quotes
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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Good design should be honest.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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I am a just man.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
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I know I am healthy enough to go out there and not hurt my teammates.
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
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I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.