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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If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.
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You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
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On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.
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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
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All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.
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Most of my mail comes from young people.
