William P. Young Quotes
Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
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To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'
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I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity. Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confident attitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is-to acquire it.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
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Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
