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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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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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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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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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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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
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When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
