Debra Wilson Quotes
If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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A well begun is half ended.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they want to express. It's never about you stepping out and showing you can play something fancy.
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When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.
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I need to work outside government, on my own.
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Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
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You don't let it be a distraction. That is not what you do. There are going to be things that happen and you don't focus on those things. You focus on getting the football team ready to play and you handle the other things up front the way we do it.
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If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.
