Alfred Wainwright Quotes
An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I want the single player experience.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.
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I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.
