Richard Wilson Quotes
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
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I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.
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People like to see showdowns.
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I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.
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In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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I try to be athletic.
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I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.
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Most of my mail comes from young people.
