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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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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You always look to impress.
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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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Women need to be empowered to shape their own livelihoods and become CEOs of their own lives. They must be allowed to take control of important life decisions that are so often decided by others.
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This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
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The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
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Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
