Willa Cather Quotes
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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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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This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
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Justice will be servedAnd the battle will rageThis big dog will fightWhen you rattle his cage.And you'll be sorry that you messed withThe U.S. of A.'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass,It's the American way.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
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I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
