William Stafford Quotes
A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
Quotes to Explore
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.
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Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.
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My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
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One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
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The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.
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A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
