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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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance.
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Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
