William T. Wiley Quotes
We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.
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My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.
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One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.
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I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
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My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.
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That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
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The greenest thing you could do in fashion, is to buy something great that you’re going to use for years
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.
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I was very shy as a child. Very shy. Lot of problems with very simple things. Like entering a restaurant all by myself.
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There are no edges to my loving now.
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We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.
