Eleanor Catton Quotes

There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.

Eleanor Catton

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Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Andrew Greeley

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The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

Jeff Bridges

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Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

Michael Hayden

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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

John Philip Sousa

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I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

Roy Wood

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Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

Masi Oka

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We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

Mary Kay Andrews

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Since most cyberwar is conducted covertly, governments avoid any public acknowledgment of their own abilities and shy away from engaging in any sort of 'cyber diplomacy.' Statecraft conducted in secret fails to create public norms for deterrence.

Jared Cohen

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Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

Condoleezza Rice

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I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.

Asif Ali Zardari

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I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

Alice Walker

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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Pope John Paul II

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