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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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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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
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What would I advise an aspiring young entrepreneur? Certainly I'd say read the works of great entrepreneurs and investors like Ben Horowitz, Peter Thiel, and many others. But what's more important is to get real experience at a great startup.
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When I'm playing a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.
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The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.
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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
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Most of my mail comes from young people.
