Douglas Wilson Quotes
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
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I think it's important to remember that an artist could be at the center of healing our problems because, every day, that's what we do. Every day, our job is to make something that wasn't there before. We're kind of built to go into situations that need a kind of fresh thought to solve them so I'm happy about that and I would encourage anyone with any problem in the world that needs to be solved to consider having any person in the creative arts be at the core of its solution. I think that's one of our unused or untapped values.
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It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
