Willa Cather Quotes
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I am who I am.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
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Fame is an interesting phenomenon.
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Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad.
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I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
