Wilson Cruz (Wilson Echevarría) Quotes
The thing about me and school was that as much as I felt that I didn't belong, as long as I was on a stage or dancing, that's where I excelled the most, felt worthy.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
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I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.
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I've been very lucky. I made a choice, getting out of school, to follow the work and the people that really struck my heartstrings; 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' was one of those - maybe it was an accident.
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Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
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When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art that I had never seen or heard of before. I wrote a lot of bad high-school poetry, just like pretty much everyone did, I think, at some point. For me, the inspiration never really stopped.
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The thing about me and school was that as much as I felt that I didn't belong, as long as I was on a stage or dancing, that's where I excelled the most, felt worthy.
