Willa Cather Quotes
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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I don't want to get rich - just live good.
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Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
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I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!
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I've always loved working, doing interviews with the guys on the 'Today' show; everyone's really easygoing, and I always feel comfortable on the show.
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If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
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One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.
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A big hit is all part of the game. If you want to make a lot of big hits, you forget about the one you just made and move onto the next one.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
