Wallace Stegner Quotes
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
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People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.
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When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.
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A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.
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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
