Wallace Stegner Quotes
Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?
Wallace Stegner
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
Kate Moss
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
Edgardo Osorio
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I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!
Adam Green
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It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.
Mario Vazquez
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Paul Theroux
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I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.
Dean Ambrose
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A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.
Charles M. Schulz
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I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.
Andrew Solomon
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We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
Norm MacDonald
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I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.
Saul Leiter
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
Donald Miller
