Willa Cather Quotes
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!
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I grew up around a lot of church musicians.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
