Willa Cather Quotes
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
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We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.
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The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world - and to pay attention to man.
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If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.
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Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
