William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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This bikini made me a success.
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Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Kleenex would have made a mint today.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He didn't respond at all, which made me like him even more.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.
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I call on the United States and the European Union to tell Saleh that he must leave now...They should end all support for his regime, especially that which is used to crush peaceful opposition...They should freeze the Saleh family's assets and those of Saleh's henchmen and return them to the people.
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Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
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I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.
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The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn't really go into, but it's a great subject to look at. It's a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it's the same in this genre.
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To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment...
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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
