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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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'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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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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I break ground. I trailblaze.
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When you're not being heard - I can't tell you what to do when you're not being heard. I do think there is a way to move in love and get things done, though.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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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.
