Earl Wilson Quotes
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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There are so many artists that have inspired me.
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I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
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Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
