Eudora Welty Quotes
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.
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It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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Those things are all about timing. I thought for the first 10 minutes it was tough for both sides to get some shots. Both teams were playing very strong defensively. You have to fight for every inch, and suddenly a puck came loose.
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The fight will last as long as I allow it to last.
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
