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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Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.
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Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.
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Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'
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I grew up in New York City, and I've got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.
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The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.
