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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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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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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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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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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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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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
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And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called.And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all.And you flash back to when he said forever and always.Oh, and it rains in your bedroom,Everything is wrong.It rains when you're here and it rains when you're gone.'Cause I was there when you said forever and always.
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Cool pools from a tired land sink now in the peace of evening Clouds weaken and die. The sun, an orange skull, whispers quietly, becomes an island, & is gone. There they are watching us everything will be dark. The light changed. We were aware knee-deep in the fluttering air as the ships move on trains in their wake.
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Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
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When you do your part, life just unfolds in ways that are so much better than you would have dreamed up on your own.
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There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.
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The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.
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I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.