Eudora Welty Quotes
How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
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All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?
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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
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How could there be billions of stars more distant than 6,000 years, if the world is only 6,000 years old?
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I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
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As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
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Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.
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I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.
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How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
