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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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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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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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.
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The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
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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.
