Willa Cather Quotes
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley.
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Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
