Eleanor Catton
Related CHARLES BUKOWSKI EMINEM I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it make... BEAU WILLIMON ARTHUR MILLER LEA MICHELE I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing... RACHEL KELLER LETITIA BALDRIGE I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it'... EMILY WATSON Give up as much as you're willing to receive back and give yourself, if that makes any sense. Wh... EMAYATZY CORINEALDI CHANG-RAE LEE CHRIS PINE People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable... DAMON HILL I like doing the editorial stuff because it's nice to do something that's more me. But model... DYLAN PENN My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laug... CHARLYNE YI People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never... FAIRUZA BALK ADRIANNE PALICKI ELLEN DEGENERES TYGA I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard ... ROBERT TORRICELLI I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I... ROBBIE WILLIAMS JOSH HARTNETT JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE C. JOYBELL C. I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of ... RACHEL HUNTER KATE MOSS STANLEY MARCUS TAVI GEVINSON KIRSTEN DUNST SHERRI SHEPHERD Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most... HANS MATHESON My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never... SONU NIGAM FANNY BRICE People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see t... BOW WOW When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is... JAMES D'ARCY NAIMA ADEDAPO How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS OSCAR LEVANT IRIS APFEL I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don... ALAN DAVIES The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are... PERSIS KHAMBATTA DIERKS BENTLEY I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who wr... PAULA FOX Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something ... AGNES OBEL I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train a... LILY RABE WHIT STILLMAN KEVIN GATES I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and the... TAIO CRUZ DAVE GROHL RAY LEWIS I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an awar... WADADA LEO SMITH CHELSEA HANDLER With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' Th... PAUL GIAMATTI It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call ... AIDAN GILLEN BOB DYLAN GEORGE LUCAS You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightm... GREG RUSEDSKI 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON LUIS MIGUEL ORNETTE COLEMAN GLORIA VANDERBILT HOLLY COMBS ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH DIANE KRUGER NEIL GAIMAN It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to... RANDY HARRISON A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard ... GONG LI DAN SAVAGE It's not a natural process, 'American Idol,' but it does great things for the people tha... CRYSTAL BOWERSOX KRISTIN DAVIS CRAIG GROESCHEL I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an awar... WADADA LEO SMITH BILL AYERS There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it&... CYNDI LAUPER It would feel like a smack in the face to sign with any label outside of Dre's. He took a risk o... ANDERSON PAAK JOHN MCENROE WINONA RYDER ROBERT GRIFFIN III DEMETRI MARTIN KHLOE KARDASHIAN I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be... PUSHA T I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. ... BEN SAVAGE I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with ... ANN BRASHARES SARAH DUNN I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented ... CATHERINE CRIER CHANCE THE RAPPER I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family th... HARVEY WEINSTEIN Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also wri... HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS SOPHIA BUSH KATE MOSS JASON RITTER I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it o... WISSAM AL MANA Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has ... CHRIS SQUIRE ZACH ANNER I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for ... EMMYLOU HARRIS HAROLD PRINCE DAVID SEDARIS
More Eleanor Catton
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a... ELEANOR CATTON My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified b... ELEANOR CATTON I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Can... ELEANOR CATTON The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've create... ELEANOR CATTON Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My hor... ELEANOR CATTON It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice. ELEANOR CATTON I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro... ELEANOR CATTON Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good... ELEANOR CATTON I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and... ELEANOR CATTON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble... ELEANOR CATTON I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one... ELEANOR CATTON To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha... ELEANOR CATTON We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. A... ELEANOR CATTON In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites... ELEANOR CATTON A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imag... ELEANOR CATTON Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or med... ELEANOR CATTON There’s no such thing as innocence any more," the girl said, "there’s only ignorance. You think ... ELEANOR CATTON We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serio... ELEANOR CATTON One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. Peop... ELEANOR CATTON I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. ELEANOR CATTON The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above. ELEANOR CATTON It is perfectly serendipitous,' said the boy, descending the steps to the street. 'Fancy that—us m... ELEANOR CATTON She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the ed... ELEANOR CATTON Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures hav... ELEANOR CATTON I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more ... ELEANOR CATTON The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were pro... ELEANOR CATTON When the lights go out, the parents cry and ask each other what did he do to her, but the girls are ... ELEANOR CATTON But what you need to understand, my darling," she whispers, "is that this little taste your daughter... ELEANOR CATTON A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past. ELEANOR CATTON For Gascoigne and Clinch were not so dissimilar in temperament, and even in their differences, showe... ELEANOR CATTON In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from... ELEANOR CATTON I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers wh... ELEANOR CATTON I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and th... ELEANOR CATTON Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how i... ELEANOR CATTON My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my m... ELEANOR CATTON I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, e... ELEANOR CATTON Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put toget... ELEANOR CATTON That’s a private interest of mine – what brings a fellow down here, you know, to the ends of the... ELEANOR CATTON Cowell Devlin sighed. Yes, he understood Anna Wetherell at long last, but it was not a happy underst... ELEANOR CATTON What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, an... ELEANOR CATTON I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my ... ELEANOR CATTON Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the r... ELEANOR CATTON I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of t... ELEANOR CATTON There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wear... ELEANOR CATTON The zodiac is a system a person can play with and see meaning in. ELEANOR CATTON BRUCE CATTON BRUCE CATTON BRUCE CATTON BRUCE CATTON BRUCE CATTON BRUCE CATTON BRUCE CATTON BRUCE CATTON BRUCE CATTON BRUCE CATTON ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR DUSE Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. ELEANOR BRON ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and... ELEANOR EARLY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. ELEANOR BRON ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ELEANOR POWELL ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. ELEANOR HAMILTON ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole. ELEANOR MONDALE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR CLIFT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
- I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happ... 
It is a lie. 
I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes m... 
It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere complim... 
I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people d... 
The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way.... 
I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I ... 
When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, b... 
A lot of people don't know I'm from the West Coast. My swag is different. Me being from Youn... 
I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be h... 
I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like... 
Maybe it's my age that makes me very conscious of loose threads, but I don't think that'... 
Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I&... 
I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a... 
I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much... 
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious w... 
I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like a... 
I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good. 
I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world i... 
Everyone talks about new love all the time, but there's so much to draw from when you've bee... 
Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not v... 
I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr... 
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. ... 
You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're ... 
I'm a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don't try to fight it. It's proven ve... 
A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing. 
It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours... 
I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot ... 
It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see... 
I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure. 
When Finley gets his vaccinations, it kills me, and you can't protect yourself from that. My hea... 
There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... 
Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the tale... 
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... 
Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know a... 
It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel com... 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very cl... 
I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling th... 
Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and y... 
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So ma... 
A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sti... 
I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal posi... 
For me, the word 'housewife,' because of, like, the 'Real Housewives' - I don't ... 
I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... 
To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbag... 
Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can def... 
There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of h... 
People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. I... 
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se... 
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodr... 
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good... 
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good... 
Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in... 
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. 
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ... 
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. 
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the pla... 
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. 