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 love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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I eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.
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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.
