Eudora Welty Quotes
Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.
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Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
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My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.
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By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
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I'm not locked into playing one guy.
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In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
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The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
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The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
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I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
