Willa Cather Quotes
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Quotes to Explore
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
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There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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Mutterings and murmurs, mingling with the rumours of glory, gave rise to fears of an indecisive battle, a precipitate retreat. Insolent voices gave out that a spirit of the lowest category, a guardian angel, the insignificant Arcade, had checked and routed the dazzling host of the three great archangels.
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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.
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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
