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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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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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.
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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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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.
