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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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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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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It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.
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I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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I can always be reminded how small I am when I try to surf a wave that's a little bit out of my league, and I just get pummeled. And, when your life flashes before your eyes kind of stuff, deep down under the water where you don't know what's up or down, and that kind of thing, or just Mother Nature reminding you how small you are compared to it. That's kind of the main thing for me.
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You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.
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How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests.
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
