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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Unfortunately, the higher you climb in social media, the more people will want to throw stones at you. But don't retaliate publicly.
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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
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I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.
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[Bob] Corker was an early endorser.
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I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?
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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.
