Willa Cather Quotes
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
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It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.
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If there is no cure, you must endure.
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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
