Freddie Wong Quotes
Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
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I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.
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It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.
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We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.
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Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now.
