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.

  

  Vikram Seth
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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.

  

  Rachel Johnson
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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!

  

  Mac DeMarco
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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.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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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.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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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.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
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• My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.

  

  Venus Williams
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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.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

  

  Oscar Nunez
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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.

  

  Young Thug
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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.

  

  Tamar Braxton
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• My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

  

  Vic Tayback
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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.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
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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.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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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.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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• I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

  

  Ariel Pink
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• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.

  

  Lao Tzu
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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.

  

  William T. Wiley
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