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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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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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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The way that I grew up, we ate very whole, real, natural foods.
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I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?
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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.
