William Wendt Quotes
The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
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As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one-it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.
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Anna accumulated things as a way of insulating herself against her own thoughts.
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Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.
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‘Alf Todd,’ said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ‘has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat’s ear with a red-hot needle.’
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My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
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When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.
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I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.
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My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread.
