Willy Mason Quotes
Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.
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I like making fun of myself; I don't want to make fun of other people, so I don't mind doing something out of character that some people might not expect me to do.
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I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
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We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.
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Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.
