Raymond E. Feist Quotes
Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
Quotes to Explore
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We are wiser than we know.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.
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The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.
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So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost
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I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.
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I still got the nasty in me.
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I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.
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I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.
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In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.
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If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
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With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.
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With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn't get out of the Gulf spill. There were so many similarities: the drains and the siphoning and the tubes. And also in the way the earth was hurt, the ocean was bleeding. Remember the video cams of the oil gushing? I couldn't stop watching that.
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Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
