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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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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I leave with sadness, but with pride: Dravid on retirement
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I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'
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Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!
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I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
