Eudora Welty Quotes
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
Quotes to Explore
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
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I want to be the best.
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If I write the song, I get to name it.
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There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
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My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.
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I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
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I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
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Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.
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I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.
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The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
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A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.
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Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
