Wallace Stegner Quotes
Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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It's much easier to work with an unknown.
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I like children - fried.
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I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.
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As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.
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Thus our duties to animals are indirectly duties to humanity.
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Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.
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Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.
