"Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well."

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Pearl S. Buck

#States Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.”
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
“Art is not disposable.”
“If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other.”
“Buy my album because... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.”
“I'm pretty sure Africa was made up by the media to scare people. I mean, I've never seen it. Have you? I didn't think so.”
“Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.”
“Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.”

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