G. Willow Wilson Quotes

In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.

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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Up
  • Work
  • Happy

• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance

• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • Help
  • Direction

• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • World
  • Real
  • Reading

• It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Easy
  • Health care
  • Debate

• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mom

• My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

  

  Gary Hume
  • She
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  • Poetry

• I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Children
  • Money
  • Wife

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Words
  • Focus
  • Present

• People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • People
  • Animals
  • Gods

• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Succeed

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Career

• Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Service

• Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Think
  • You
  • President

• Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • God
  • Think
  • Yourself

• Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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