Lanford Wilson Quotes
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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I have a secret love of jazz.
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.
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If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
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Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
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I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.
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The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
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I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
