Douglas Wilder Quotes
The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
Quotes to Explore
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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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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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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I'm like a renegade and that rubs people wrong.
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I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.
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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.
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Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives.
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The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
