Willa Cather Quotes
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.
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The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.
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I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.
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It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.
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The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.
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The end is nothing; the road is all.
