Wallace Stegner Quotes
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
Quotes to Explore
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People take things so seriously.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I was rubbish at school.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
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Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
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Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object.
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The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.
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As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.
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Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
