Willa Cather Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I would like to direct.
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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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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
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I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.
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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
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Other than they may or may not have discussed the relative merits of the Electoral College vs. the popular vote, what I am told by sources close to Al Gore is that this was at the instigation of Ivanka Trump, that she reached out to the former vice president recently to discuss climate change, and that he was really impressed with the way she was thinking about the issue, framing the issue.
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Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
