Willa Cather Quotes
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
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The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
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Like when Jay Leno made jokes about Koreans eating dog, but the hidden messages, our invisibility, is more harmful to us than any of those fools on 'board'.
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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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I am fully anticipating that something - perhaps many things - will not go according to plan on our actual wedding day. If some of the flowers are wilted, or there aren't enough vegetarian meals, or the priest calls me the wrong name, I will embrace these errors.
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My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
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This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
