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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I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
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There is no one in America more qualified to talk about bailouts than Mitch McConnell.
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I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.
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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.
