G. Willow Wilson Quotes
Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.
Quotes to Explore
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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'The Fugitive Kind,' 'Rope,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I watched all these as a way of reminding myself that you can do a movie based on a play. You can do a movie that stays in one place for a long stretch.
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Destiny and history are untidy.
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During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.
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Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.
