Owen Wilson Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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It would be good if you opened your heart to the fullness of time and spirit.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
