Earl Wilson Quotes

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

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• I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Play
  • Kid
  • Back

• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Him

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Friend
  • Talk
  • Him

• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Thought

• I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Great
  • Loved
  • Him

• Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Him

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Play
  • Weird

• I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Him

• I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Up
  • Play
  • Old

• If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Play
  • Face
  • Characters

• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Player
  • Same

• Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Him
  • Joker

• When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Trump

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Country
  • Poet
  • Him

• The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Time
  • Think
  • Him

• Satan can never be as evil as our God is good. His mercy is limitless. His love is limitless!

  

  Karen Wheaton
  • Love
  • Mercy
  • Satan

• Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Music
  • Money
  • True

• In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Night
  • Assumption
  • Careful

• After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I’m supposed to go to the NFL and so that’s what I did. I didn’t really have any expectations and I didn’t really understand how things worked.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Expectations
  • Trophies

• He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

  

  Earl Wilson
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