Wallace Stegner Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.
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It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.
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Putin is slouching…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.
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He could afford to be generous, since he didn’t have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.
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It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
