Eleanor Catton Quotes

Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.

Eleanor Catton

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I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

Andrea Corr

ToleranceDiscomfortHigh

There're a lot of rules to basketball.

Amar'e Stoudemire

BasketballRulesLot

Realistically, looks offer an advantage to an actor. I'm going to work hard to maintain my skin. I'm going to prevent aging as much as possible. And I will keep trying to become a better person on the inside as much as I spruce up the outside.

Song Joong-ki

WorkAgingWork HardBetter Person

When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce.

Travis Kalanick

PeopleStartFierceYouBigGuy

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

Tony Kushner

LoveLove IsUglyPeopleYouSay

The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought hundreds of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Jews to France.

Tom Reiss

LateAfricaJewishFranceJews

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

Louis Theroux

ReligionMonopoly

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

Chris Lowell

LoveHairMakeupWorryFirstHead

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Christopher Eccleston

WatchingYearsEverybodyTakenLot

In the past, I've done some covering. My first show in New York, I covered three guys in 'Jersey Boys.' I think it was always something that was helpful for keeping my head on straight.

Colin Donnell

PastNew YorkThinkNewDoneThree

I shouldn't have retired from England. I needed to respect the shirt.

Ashley Cole

RespectShirtEnglandNeededRetired

When your name is Twinkle, you are a bookworm, and a fat child, then you have to be ready to be made fun of. As a child, I used my fists a lot, but then the tongue seemed like a better option. So I started using words as a sword to jab fun at myself.

Twinkle Khanna

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