Willa Cather Quotes
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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I have a dark sense of humor.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
