Willa Cather Quotes
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.
Quotes to Explore
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
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Necessity has no law.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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Cattle are very polite, they don't burp out loud.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
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La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze.
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Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.
