Bill Whittle Quotes
Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
Quotes to Explore
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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Music is about the performance.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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I never starved myself.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.
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You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
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I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.
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I am very confident about my work because I have worked very hard.
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Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
