W. Brett Wilson Quotes
Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.
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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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I am happy in Paris.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
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I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach. It seems to me that it doesn't fully meet the level of responsibility that lies on the shoulders of the U.S. I think that all this should be more dignified, calm and more balanced.
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A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
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Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.
