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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There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.
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If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.
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In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I had just come to California and that's just who I wanted to meet. So I was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She told me that I was very cute. And I lost it — I was so excited.
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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.
