Willa Cather Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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The devil made me do it.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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Straight people are everywhere!
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I'm always grateful for any kind of moment that keeps my memories alive and gives me a little taste of the excitement I used to get all the time.
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And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.
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I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.
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I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
