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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For one thing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being nice. There is nothing uncool about it; there's nothing wrong with being kind.
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Sure, people talk about all kinds of stuff at the office, but surely everyone has better things to do than sound like they're auditioning for Fox News.
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I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like it was a video game or something. And then there's ads where, like, you know, the X to, like, close the ad screen is so kind of small that you can't find it and you have to actually go looking for it. And so I spend all my energy - instead of, like, absorbing what the advertiser wants to communicate to me, I spend my energy trying to figure out how to defeat the ad.
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Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?
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The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
