Edmund Wilson Quotes
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
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I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.
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To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
