Nancy Wilson Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
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I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.
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Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
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I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience taught me to never talk bad about anyone.
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My favorite acoustic is the Nancy Wilson Signature Martin.
