Wayne Gerard Trotman Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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I can't die but once.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
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Yes, there's something dangerous about turning people into token social activists. I was thinking about this recently with our pop-culture feminism, when feminism is such a buzzword in the media now. We're covering it in a way that we haven't before, but also in a way that's way more surface level. And while I think that there's some danger in that, I also think it's a great gateway for some people.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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Mark Zuckerberg has never really had pressure put on him. He's an engineer, and he's created this perfect system that is Facebook, and he's always been concerned about the internal beauty and logic of this creation that he's created. I don't think that the human implications of what he's created have often been apparent to him.
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Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.