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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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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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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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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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
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The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
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Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
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I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.
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If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
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Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.
