Willa Cather Quotes
In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.Willa Cather
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
Vaclav Klaus -
I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
Uday Kotak -
I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
Karin Slaughter -
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand -
There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
Taylor Schilling -
'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
Kate Winslet
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
Wallace Shawn -
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney -
Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
Victoria Aveyard -
I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway -
I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!
Nadine Velazquez
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
Mallory Jansen -
I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
Venus Williams -
I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
Karen Joy Fowler -
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
J. G. Ballard -
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
Pablo Casals -
Picking through your pocket lining, well what is this?Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus?
Joanna Newsom -
I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
Natalie du Toit -
You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
Carmen Ejogo -
We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.
James Forman, Jr. -
In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.
Willa Cather