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
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
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
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Imtiaz Ali
That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
Fran Tarkenton
I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
Jennifer Weiner
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
Marc Newson
SECRETS ARE LIESSHARING IS CARINGPRIVACY IS THEFT
Dave Eggers
Bringing in for-profit private plans to replace EPIC is a surefire way to make poor New Yorkers lose access to medicine. Logistical fumbles will be rampant.
Bob Hayes
Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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