Edmund Wilson Quotes
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.
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The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.
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When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
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I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
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The funny thing is that the fashions from the '90s seem to sit so well with the fashions of 2016. Everything from then somehow skipped and came back.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
