Eleanor Catton Quotes

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.

Eleanor Catton

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Just taking care of yourself is a job of its own.

Joanna Krupa

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When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

Jesmyn Ward

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I look very serious. I look stern even when I'm not stern. If I'm not feeling cross, I look a little bit cross. I can't help it. It's just my face.

Jennifer Connelly

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As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.

Jen Kirkman

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As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

Ron Kind

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My company, Ballet Beautiful, is built around celebrating the strength and femininity of the female body - for me, pregnancy has just been an extension of that.

Mary Helen Bowers

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It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know.

Joshua Morrow

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Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Dennis Moore

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In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Christiane Amanpour

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True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Bryant H. McGill

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I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

Pauly Shore

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