N.D. Wilson Quotes
Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
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In films, you work for three to six months, and you're out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don't have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you're just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.
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For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
