Rebecca Wells Quotes
I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
Quotes to Explore
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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I'm not a party person.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
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I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
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I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
