G. Willow Wilson Quotes
For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.
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The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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I don't eat red meat.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
