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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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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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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I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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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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A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.
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If I write the song, I get to name it.
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"Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them.
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Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.
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There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.
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I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
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Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.
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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.
