Eudora Welty Quotes
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.
Eudora Welty
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
C. Northcote Parkinson
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt
A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
Rachel Miner
It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
Ted Allen
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Victor Davis Hanson
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
Barbara Walters
Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
Laura Wasser
In some causes silence is dangerous.
Saint Ambrose
Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
Sam Heughan
It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
Patrick Lussier
The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
Jerry Bridges
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
Steve Coogan
Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
Zhang Zhidong
Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.
Jennifer Holliday
I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.
Emily Browning
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.
Eudora Welty
