Willa Cather Quotes
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
Quotes to Explore
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
