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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Not every Hammer film was perfect.
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My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch - old Westerns and stuff that wasn't vulgar or violent at all.
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You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of the other ones - it wasn't always the case that you had people the caliber of Jeff Bridges or Robert Downey, so to kind of show up and work with Jeremy Renner or Robert or with Mark Ruffalo, any of them, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, the caliber of people you're acting with, to me, is really fun. From the first day I started doing scenes with Robert, it's been one of the funnest experiences I've ever had.
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What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
