Rainn Wilson Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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We all get self-centered.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.
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I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
