Wallace Stegner Quotes
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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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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
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I love proving people wrong.
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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
