Ray Wilson Quotes
The transition as far as our living conditions has been relatively easy. But as far as our mental state, I think everyone's suffering right now.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.
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My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
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In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.
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They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.
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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
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The transition as far as our living conditions has been relatively easy. But as far as our mental state, I think everyone's suffering right now.
