Wallace Stegner Quotes
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
