Willard Gaylin Quotes
Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
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But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.
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I'm very prescriptive about my routine. Almost nothing changes: I have the same meal - pasta with Bolognese sauce - between shows; the person who dresses me stands on the same side every time; I take the same route to the stage. I'm very OCD about these things, as most actors are.
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For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.
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Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.
