Owen Wister Quotes
It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
Quotes to Explore
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
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How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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But you know he'll always keep movin';You know he's never gonna stop movin.Cus he's rollin',He's the rollin' stone.And when you wake up it's a new mornin'.The sun is shinin' it's a new morning.You're goin',You're goin' home.
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It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
