Eudora Welty Quotes
Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?
Quotes to Explore
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
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I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.
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The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.
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You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'
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When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.
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We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
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Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?
