Wallace Stegner Quotes
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
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I thought we were aggressive. We made them work for the most part.
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I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.
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What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?
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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
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I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.
