Eleanor Catton Quotes

It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

Eleanor Catton

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ChangeCharacterPeopleActionThink

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

Jerry Pournelle

BestNew YorkThinkNewLandNever

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Meek Mill

GoodMusicTalentPeopleEgoOver

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

Stanley Kubrick

MeMiserableHereFiveWagonHarm

My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.

Mary Barra

FatherCarOpportunityTimeWorld

I cry when I feel moved by incredible generosity or a connection to someone. We spend so much of our lives being separated. It's the relief of connection that produces the tears.

Michael Sheen

GenerosityTearsFeelSomeoneCry

I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.

Molly Antopol

ParentsMeKitchenImpossibleThink

What people have to understand is 'Billboard' is a magazine. They're like elected officials - they work for us.

Jay-Z

WorkPeopleUnderstandUsLike

I don't like losers.

Donald Trump

LikeLosers

I am calm most of the time.

Claudia Schiffer

TimeI AmCalmMostAm

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

William John Wills

BeautifulTimeGreenBelieveYou

I think great skin is always important. With lots of makeup, by the end of the night, you look like you're melting!

Priyanka Chopra

GreatNightMakeupThinkEndLook

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

Mario Botta

DesignMuseumEverythingSeemClear

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