Debra Wilson Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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Craig Ferguson: Do you do therapy?Hugh Laurie: I see a gentleman once a week.Craig Ferguson: I love it, I'm a great convert.Hugh Laurie: Therapy?Craig Ferguson: No, just seeing a gentleman once a week.
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Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's a certain sort of stigma, a sort of kookiness, when it comes to that.
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The men climb the Andes.
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Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.
