Wilson Follett Quotes
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
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When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.
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Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.
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That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
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You can't rush an art form.
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The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
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Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.
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I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.
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I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.
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When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
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The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.
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I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
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Usage ain't always a matter of ought.
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Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
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I'm not an intimate person, really.
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We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
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It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.
