Willa Cather Quotes
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
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Sometimes I hear, particularly from Russia, that we simply hate Russia and don't like to co-operate, that we are hysterical about the risks. But this is totally untrue. We would greatly benefit economically if our neighbour was a democratic, developing country.
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I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.
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When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.
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I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
