Eudora Welty Quotes
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.
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I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
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I'm a Capricorn, actually.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director.
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The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.
