Daniel H. Wilson Quotes
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
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Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is. But just because something is a part of your past doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t mean that it defines your future. ... Just because something is a tradition doesn’t make it right.
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Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
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Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
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Morality, if present, should not be relied on because it will be trumped by self interest in most circumstances.
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Whate'er we leave to God, God doesAnd blesses us.
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I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm really squeamish. But if I had to pick a favorite, it would definitely be 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson. Not only is that a scary movie, it's just a flat out classic.
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I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
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Sour gas is one of the most dangerous, toxic substances known to man.
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I've always been drawn to raw material.
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At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.
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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.
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I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.
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With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.
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You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.
