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.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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.
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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.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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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.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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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.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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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.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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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.
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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.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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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.
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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.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I only write in blue ink.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
