Willa Cather Quotes
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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War does strange things to truth.
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You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!'
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Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
