Sloan Wilson Quotes
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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Love is impossible without bite marks.
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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
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I always want to watch something I've done, so that I know what I didn't do well.
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It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.
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It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
