Eudora Welty Quotes
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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What I do is I do my job.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?
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Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
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There is a certain swagger with vampires.
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I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.
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The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture.
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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
