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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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.
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I have ten thousand memories of myself writing alone in basements, bizarre servant quarters, cemeteries, deserted fountains, the band van, and other awkward settings.
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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.
