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Eleanor Catton Quotes

It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: September 24, 1985

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I Am Fun Saying Thinking Interesting

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.

John G. D. Clark

Great Time World Thought Name Open

My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we'd train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse.

Day Together Brother End Long Train

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Michael Ignatieff

Time Ideas Intellectual Question Own

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

Art Colors Clothes Now Want Years

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.

Faith Someone You Bad Acting Forget

I'd rather have a small part in a big film or good story than do a solo film just for the sake of it.

Sidharth Malhotra

Good Small Story Solo Big Film

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

People Think Way Complain Point

I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Good Art Language Talk Smell Theory

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

Good Principles Reason Temporary Few

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

People Trying You Back Know Kind

You can't ever force anything, and you have to deal with what comes to you as it comes.

You Anything Force Deal Ever

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