Will McDonough Quotes
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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Women drive box office.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.
