William T. Wiley Quotes
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
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I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
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Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
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I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.
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You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected.
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The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
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I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
