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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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 almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.
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I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
