Eudora Welty Quotes
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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The dieting wars have got to stop.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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Bloodshed kept pace with iron production: in essence, the entire paleotechnic period was ruled, from beginning to end, by the policy of blood and iron. The brutal contempt for life was equalled only by the the almost priestly ritual it developed for inflicting death. Its 'peace' was indeed the peace that passeth understanding: what was it but latent warfare.
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It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.
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I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.
