Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes
I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was living, and my mentality, was part of my progression to be a man.
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Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.
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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
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I write larger than life. It's what I do.
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I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
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I still love a variety of kinds of music.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.
