Eudora Welty Quotes
Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
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What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.
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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
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I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.
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I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
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Women want to watch the dark stuff.
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I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.
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Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.
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I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy.
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Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
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You know, I never fight for corporate America.
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I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'
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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
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Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
