Edmund Wilson Quotes
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I am very much a Republican.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one hour, and suddenly, day after day, piece by piece, I could really feel I was coming back into me.
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I’ve been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It’s better than the Inquisition. Usually.
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Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
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We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
