Willa Cather Quotes

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Willa Cather

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• I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Enjoy
  • Common
  • Condition

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Stop
  • Dad

• We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True
  • Know
  • Brand

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Strong

• Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Try
  • Talk

• I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Team

• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Years
  • Broken

• I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Always

• The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Football

• I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Growing
  • Magic

• It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Up
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Want
  • Act

• When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • World
  • Never
  • Service

• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • True
  • End
  • Honor

• People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Love
  • Together
  • Helpful

• Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.

  

  Stanley Robert Vinton
  • Time
  • Live

• Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Men
  • Home
  • Kids

• Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Values
  • Breakfast
  • Commendable