Willa Cather Quotes
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.
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People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
