William Gurnall Quotes
Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.
Quotes to Explore
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I get homesick.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. ... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
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Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.
