Eudora Welty Quotes
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I like to discover new things.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It's not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.
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We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.
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Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
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I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
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Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.
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The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.
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A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.
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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
