Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
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Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.
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I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.
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Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.
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My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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We realised that the safer creative people and craftsman feel, the better the collection they produce. If they do a better collection, my revenues grow. It is not easy to attach figures, but it is what happens.
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I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
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I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
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Wine gets better with time. So does art.
