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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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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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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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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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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It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
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Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I've been planning a chunk of time to myself for years now. It's been my intention to finish 'Astonishing X-Men,' 'I Am Legion' and 'Planetary' and then sort of 'disappear' from doing comic interiors for a couple of years. I'll pop up here and there with a short story or two, old promises to friends and all, but no major series work.
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I was 11 years old when the Beatles broke up. I was a Lennon fanatic - I mean, I loved Paul too, but Lennon was the guy - and there was always this dream of the Beatles getting back together; there was always this hope.
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Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.
