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.

Ernest Dion Wilson

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• Make Money
• Great Music

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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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Story
  • Feet
  • Busy

• 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.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Future

• I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Desert

• 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.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Poetry
  • Voice
  • Chinese

• Going 3-13 is not acceptable.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Going
  • Acceptable

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Advice

• Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Man
  • Very
  • Obscure

• I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • Libertarian
  • Programs

• My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Food
  • Mom
  • Uncle

• When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Player
  • Years
  • Stupid

• 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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Mean

• How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

  

  Nancy E. Turner
  • Forever

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Thoughts

• Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

  

  Barbara Ann Kipfer
  • Corrected
  • Transgressions
  • Antagonize

• Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

  

  Neil Patel
  • Try
  • Create
  • Product

• Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won’t be distracted by nuance or even truth.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Truth
  • Dialogue
  • Distracted

• I love the me I am with him. I’m the girl who has Dave. I’m Lauren, Dave’s girlfriend. I’m someone better than Lauren Smith, who no one noticed till Dave came along. The thing is, that girl isn’t me and I know it. But when I’m with him, I feel like I could be her. That if something in me was just–I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Girl
  • Perfect
  • I Love

• You want to try to find your heritage.

  

  Reese Hoffa
  • Want
  • Find
  • Heritage

• 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.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Product
  • Promote
  • Make Money