Wallace Stegner Quotes
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Women drive box office.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.
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We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.
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I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
