Mary Wesley Quotes
Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.
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We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
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Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.
