Willa Cather Quotes
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I no longer limit myself.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.
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Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
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I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
