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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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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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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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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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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switch (ref $@) OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained'; DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained'; NuclearWarError => die;
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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
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I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.
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With 'Toy Story,' which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is shot much like any other action film.
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When I really started just giving them the truth of who I was, that's when my fan base really started to grow.
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I feel like I came to acting late in a way.
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Games are all about taking risks.
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It's either 'Saw' made for $4 million or 'Star Wars,' 'Star Trek,' 'Guardians of the Galaxy' et cetera being made for $150 million. So the $30 and $40 million films don't get made unless they're maybe 'Ride Along.' But I don't really know why. I don't get paid to know why.
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I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.
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I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.
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Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
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Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very good to do that in order to facilitate better communications between us. I have been partnering with the director of the Spirit Tracks to fight against the director of the new Wii game and yes, recently we have been winning!
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The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
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In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.
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Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.
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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.
