Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
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As our company has grown, how we configure and design our offices has been a crucial part of how we foster connection and collaboration throughout our teams.
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To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
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Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
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If I would have to sacrifice R&D investments to fulfill a goal, that would be the wrong goal to have.
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Washington's a cesspool of money.