Eudora Welty Quotes
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.
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The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
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Ik sus mijn geweten nu maar met de gedachte, dat scheldwoorden beter op papier kunnen staan dan dat moeder ze moet meedragen in haar hart.
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I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.
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I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.
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I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension - working strength - is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
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You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
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No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
