Eudora Welty Quotes
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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I like being by myself.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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'Here's my man! It doesn't have to stay out and party with his guys!' 'Here, let me see that...It doesn't seem to be able to pick up the fucking check, does it?'
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They say that that haunting memory-face is modeled from my own, as it was at twenty-five; but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of Attica - HYPNOS.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.
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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
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Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.
