Eleanor Catton Quotes

My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.

Eleanor Catton

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• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
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• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Smart
  • Intelligence
  • Dolphin

• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • History
  • Team
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• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Water
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• In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Heart
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• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
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• A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• I'd love to make a thriller.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Make
  • Thriller

• You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • You
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• I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
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• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
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• People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Need
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• I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Games
  • Adventure
  • Characters

• In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Pay
  • Employees

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
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• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
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• Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Mind
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  • Design

• I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Forever
  • Princess

• My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Parents

• With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.

  

  James Patterson
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Parents

• My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Parents
  • Tears
  • Teenager