Willa Cather Quotes
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
Quotes to Explore
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.
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For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
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I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.
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Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
