W. Brett Wilson Quotes
Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
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The world of the flapper - live free, wild and young - that energy is intoxicating. It's nice to inject that into the more controlled 'Downton' way of living.
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My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.
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I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
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My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
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Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.
