Bill Vaughan Quotes
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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Us Jews are nomadic people.
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I don't swim! That's like athletic.
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Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
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I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
