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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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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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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What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.
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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
