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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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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Everything in your world is created by what you think.
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What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.
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I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
