Wallace Stegner Quotes
You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.
Quotes to Explore
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.
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You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.
