Wallace Stegner Quotes
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I know I am no better than anyone else in this world.
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At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
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One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.