C.L. Wilson Quotes
“Not all battles can be won. Not all lives can be saved. And no matter how we wish it, not all songs end in joy.”
Quotes to Explore
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski -
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
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I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.
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I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.
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In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife at the time to the helicopter. He's just this little bundle of joy in her arms. And it's 1969.
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I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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“Not all battles can be won. Not all lives can be saved. And no matter how we wish it, not all songs end in joy.”
