Wallace Stegner Quotes
A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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I'd done kids' TV in the U.K., but not great kids' TV. So yes, 'Submarine' was the first film and the first good thing that I have done.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.
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Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.
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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
