D. W. Wilson Quotes

“You know what they say about sympathy...it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.”

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Done
  • Home
  • Always

• I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Wind
  • Hollywood
  • Disaster

• U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Black
  • Budget
  • Beyond

• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Together
  • Partner

• Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Singing

• I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Person

• We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Smart

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.

  

  Bob Dylan

• You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Hand

• As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Work
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• 'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Air

• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Up
  • Morning

• I've wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that's where you can convey a message.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Time
  • Long

• The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Character
  • Democracy
  • Ridiculous

• To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • God
  • Death
  • Universe

• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Gay
  • Retirement
  • Lesbian

• This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

  

  Bill Delahunt
  • Important
  • Job

• If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • Single
  • Needs

• “You know what they say about sympathy...it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.”

  

  D. W. Wilson
  • Sympathy
  • Dictionary