Earl Wilson Quotes
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.
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But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
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I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
