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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I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
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To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
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Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
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I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a child and as an adolescent, as it is now that I'm an adult.
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Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
