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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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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In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
