Wallace Stegner Quotes
I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.
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Israel remains and embattled democracy in the midst of authoritarian states, and the birthplace of the kibbutz to which tens of thousands of youth from around the world have turned for a living lesson in human equality.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.
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I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.
