Willa Cather Quotes
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Funny is an attitude.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.
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When was the last time you saw a straight black love story without any guns?
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
