Dominique Wilkins Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.
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In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
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I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.'
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I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
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When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
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I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.
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War will exist as long as there's a food chain.
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I chose to paint because the medium as such has a particular meaning. It is almost synonymous with what is popularly viewed as Art - art with a capital A-with all the glory, the piety, and the authority that it commands.
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Omnia qua propter debent per inane quietumaeque ponderibus non aequis concita ferri.
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Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
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He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make the concept work, but had not understood enough to be aware of its consequences.
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I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.
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I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.
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I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you.
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I’m just saying that right now we could all use a degree of perspective. Because this is not the end of the world.
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I suffered at the time from an ugliness I no longer find on my childhood face.
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I am diabetic.
