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 truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Work
  • Truth

• 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 think 'Never Land' is, like, my first really strong attempt to create music... that can encourage people who share my faith but also challenge and intrigue people who don't.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • People
  • Music
  • Strong

• People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.

  

  Ann Winterton
  • Jobs
  • Destroy
  • Hunting

• The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Party
  • Sympathy
  • Admiration

• Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Business
  • American

• Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Rest
  • Destructive

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

  

  D. W. Wilson
  • Sympathy
  • Dictionary