Eleanor Catton Quotes

What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.

Eleanor Catton

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FeelYouKnowCreationTrueNothing

The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.

John Grant

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The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.

Toussaint Louverture

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I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Robert Walpole

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In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

Rufus Wainwright

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Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

Mike Myers

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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

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I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

Lou Reed

BeerMeKnowUpCrowdShow

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

Dennis Farina

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Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

ASAP Ferg

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The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

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It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

Peter O'Toole

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It is hard to know exactly when the Arab Spring, a phrase used to describe the beginning of the Arab peoples' demand for democracy and human-rights reform, started.

Richard Grenell

BeginningSpringDemocracyKnowHard

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