Eleanor Catton Quotes

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.

Eleanor Catton

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My natural hair is who I am. I have lots of braids, and I have lots of twists, but it's all very low maintenance. I feel like I can get up and go and get out of the house. I just don't have it in me to get my hair done all the time.

Jessica Williams

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An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

John McAfee

AngerAngryPeopleCreateAnything

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

Meriwether Lewis

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When I look at a woman through my camera, I see her with complete admiration and appreciation of her beauty, strength, and power - and that's how I do my best to represent her.

Amanda de Cadenet

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My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

Steven Moffat

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The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

Tommy Franks

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There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.

Molly Ivins

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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

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All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

Diane von Furstenberg

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I buy very little of what's sold to me in the church. Very, very little.

Delilah

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In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.

Clint Smith

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If 'The New York Times' says it, it must be true.

Bob Newhart

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