Eudora Welty Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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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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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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America is huge.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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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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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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They hate whom they fear.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.
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Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.
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Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
