Debra Wilson Quotes
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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Once you look back on your career when it's over, you can say, 'This is what I achieved,' or, 'This is what I'm driving.'
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The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.
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The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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My driving force is spirituality.
