Eudora Welty Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
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Youth has no age.
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I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.
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My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
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Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.
