Eleanor Catton Quotes

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

Eleanor Catton

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I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

John Eaton

MusicWantAudienceInvolvedSweep

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

Andrea Arnold

DarknessConflictWorldSeeLike

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

John Witherspoon

TrustMenWishChooseConversation

I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.

Amisha Patel

WorkGirlI AmMeBodySuperior

My old firm, Goldman Sachs - traditionally, the best banks are leveraged 8:1. When we had the financial crisis in 2008, the investment banks were leveraged 35:1. Those rules had specifically been changed by a guy named Hank Paulson. He was secretary of Treasury.

Steve Bannon

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I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

Stanley R. Jaffe

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I only want to write a song with the people who want to write a song with me.

LP

PeopleMeSongWantWriteOnly

I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.

Chris Cuomo

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Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

Dean Bakopoulos

MusicChildrenWritingProcessNever

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Christian Lous Lange

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I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.

Cory Booker

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Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantanamo more or less continuously, kept awake for much of that time by loud music being blasted when he was falling asleep, doused with water and subjected to cold temperatures, kept naked and forced to perform tricks as if he were a dog.

Peter Bergen

DogMusicJanuaryTimeWaterCold

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