Eudora Welty Quotes
Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
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It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.
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I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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I often break strings, which on a piano is quite an achievement!
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There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A.
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This is about little children ... and people not giving them better choices.
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If I lie, I forget what I said the first time. I won't remember the lie. I don't know how people do it.
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Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.
