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Eleanor Catton Quotes

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: September 24, 1985

Topics

Adventure Story New Write Years Set

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

Rich Powerful Poor Cannot Punished

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Life Loneliness Writer Conditions

I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.

Good Enough Boy Lucky Gate Out

I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.

Father I Am Child World Gentleman

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Dreams Truth World Reality Enough

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

People Just Because Authority Right

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

Success College Speak Camera Reason

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Myself People You Say Up Get

The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing.

Life Time Personality Process New

Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution of how to interact, promote and share things.

Technology Social Media Me Revolution

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.

Free Weakness Speech React Ability

I normally don't eat junk food.

Food Eat Junk Food Junk Normally

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