Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes
If you want to make money, that's great, but if you make great music, you're going to make money anyway. Keep your eyes on making a great product. You don't even have to promote it.
Quotes to Explore
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
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Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.
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Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
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Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.
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The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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If you want to make money, that's great, but if you make great music, you're going to make money anyway. Keep your eyes on making a great product. You don't even have to promote it.
