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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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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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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As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.
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Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don't have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you're thrown in with and have to work with, is that I'm grounded.
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I have a dog. He needs to be walked, and I love running, so I pull out my running shoes.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
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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.
