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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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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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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If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest plays. They have life, meaning, understanding, the whole lot.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.
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When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
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It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
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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.
