Stan Wawrinka Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
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As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
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Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.
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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.
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I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
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No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
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I think I love my sport. I enjoy to play tennis. It's my passion.
