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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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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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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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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Arcade Fire has kept their indie cred. They will sell out stadiums yet still have underdog status. But when you're a band like Coldplay, people are waiting to knock you down.
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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.
