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Eudora Welty Quotes

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1909 - July 23, 2001

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Work Yourself Step First Step Person

I just don't like to talk about the past.

Past Talk Just Like About

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

Me Feel Interesting You Now Follow

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.

Child Book Reading Know Lazy Want

I don't partake, really, of any of the typical rock-star-lifestyle things you could think of. I try to be responsible when I'm out on the road. I take it pretty seriously, what I'm doing, as something that's good for the world, and my family, and everyone.

Family Good World Road Think Doing

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

Life Peace Moving Forward Healing

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.

Peace War World Elders Changes Side

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

Heart I Am First Lead Out Act

Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.

Challenge Connections Airport Big

As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed.

Snow Baby Face You White Bear

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Father Great Me Difficult Singer He

I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.

Getting Married Even Boyfriend

There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time.

Life Time Experience War Africa Way

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