Willa Cather Quotes
People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
Quotes to Explore
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.
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When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
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Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home.
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To be honest, my first instinct when I heard about the 'Greendale' project was that it was a licensing thing. As I learned more about the project, I saw how pure it was.
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You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
