Willa Cather Quotes
[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
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'I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman' 6
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I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.
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There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
