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.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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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.
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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.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
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We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
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I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.
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We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
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Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.
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“You know what they say about sympathy...it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.”
