Eleanor Catton Quotes

A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.

Eleanor Catton

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I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them.

Jerry Seinfeld

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Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

Angus Young

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To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I write in a very melodic way, so that will never leave. I think my records will always tend to be approachable.

Tom DeLonge

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I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

Roberto Aguire

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For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

Michael Tubbs

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What I find is that you don't need to go for fancy mascara - I always get the L'Oreal ones from the drugstore. I get the gold tube, Voluminous Million Lashes in black.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

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We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.

Joy Harjo

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Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

Donovan

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There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

David Zayas

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Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Chloe Grace Moretz

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I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.

Claude Williams

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