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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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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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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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The world is kept alive only by heretics.
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I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
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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.
