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 clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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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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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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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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Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
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Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.
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Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
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For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
