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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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
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I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything - but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.
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I grew up in a house full of women - I have four sisters. I'm more feminine than some gay men.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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.
