Eudora Welty Quotes
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
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Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.
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You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.
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You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.
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Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier to write. You have to make choices all the time - what to tell and what not to tell.
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
