Eudora Welty Quotes
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.
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My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
