Sloan Wilson Quotes
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
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A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
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Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
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When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
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One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons or Eagle Scouts.
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Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs.
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
