Owen Wilson Quotes
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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Our country will be stabilized, with all key establishments in society working in unity with full awareness among Thais of their duties and responsibilities.
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Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
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I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.
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What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
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God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.
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I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.
