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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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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Catechesis, preaching, and passing on the faith must not only be about educating the members of our communities in the content of our tradition. This is important, but it must equally be about developing their spiritual sensitivity to the ways God manifests His presence and action in the world.
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'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'
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I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.
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Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not look like a comedy. I thought that was great.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
