William Westney Quotes
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.
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Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.
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What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those posters that were put up in Europe, which said, "Come to America and you'll have golden sidewalks. The land will be yours." There was something so inspirational about the fact that these immigrants from all over the world felt that here was a place of freedom, a place of opportunity.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Funny stuff? Bringing back “Pain for Pleasure” every night on our nine week tour was the funniest, most hysterical thing ever, and being a part of that and making the behind-the-scenes videos about it was just super fun.
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Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
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Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.
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Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
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Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear
