Willa Cather Quotes
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.
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I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
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America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.
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An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
