Eleanor Catton Quotes

What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about them, you could look into the book and see them.

Eleanor Catton

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I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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I'm sort of the Antichrist to the Conservative Party.

Andrew Cuomo

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Men should have more time with their newborn babies.

Megyn Kelly

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That doomsday idea is in everybody's subconscious.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Sting

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I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.

Steve Martin

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You can't blame things for being dark if the light bulbs aren't working. So we're complaining about the darkness when the bulbs aren't working, and the Bible says that we are the light of the world.

Tony Evans

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I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.

LL Cool J

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Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

Daymond John

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Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

Cherie Blair

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The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

Christine Lahti

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I am not a fine chef, but I can certainly get dinner on the table for 14 people. With that many, I try to keep it simple: salmon, mashed potatoes, sauteed spinach, and salad.

Cindy Crawford

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