Garry Wills Quotes

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Dress

• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Medicine
  • Old Age

• Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Future
  • Eyes
  • Present

• My family is a praying family, a Christian family.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Praying

• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Ballet
  • Dancer
  • Fosse

• It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Up
  • Black
  • Sixties

• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • High
  • Morning
  • Cost

• To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

  

  Ted Lange
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Want
  • You
  • Kind

• The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Different
  • Play
  • Acting

• Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Brain

• Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • High
  • Amazing

• I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Music
  • Hope

• I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Body
  • I Think
  • Self-Doubt

• There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters.

  

  Raza Jaffrey
  • Audience
  • Characters
  • Risks

• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Born

• I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

  

  Garry Wills
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