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 do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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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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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
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There's nothing better than voicing a character. You don't have to worry about what you're wearing; you've got the script in front of you, and it doesn't involve your body: it's all about your voice, and it's really fast work.
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With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.
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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
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Fiction writers have long turned to winter to advance bluer palettes, slicker surfaces, and sharper contrasts. The sky darkens, the wind picks up, and flakes start to fall. Horizons shrink. Couples bicker. Cars slide off roads. Obliteration tends to loiter between the sentences.
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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.
