Wallace Stegner Quotes
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
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America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
