Douglas Wilson Quotes
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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I started out as a Democrat.
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My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.
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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.
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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.
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You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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The silver medals I won in Salt Lake City didn’t give me anything. Last year I set myself the goal of winning the World Cup and lining up a long series of wins. It was my private challenge.
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Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
