Earl Wilson Quotes
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
