Wallace Stegner Quotes
He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
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Baseball, in my opinion, would be a lot better if you could just make the same salary as everybody else in the world, and you don't deal with any of the other stuff. But that's not how it is. The main thing is I want to pitch against the best players in the world, and you can't do that playing in a pickup baseball league in your town.
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Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
