William C. Wright Quotes
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is too violent right now.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
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Any guy who’s played team sports has practiced a skill I call 'team sport empathy': he’s practiced focusing on anticipating the other team’s moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation.
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Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
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People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.
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Kevin's mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, 'Oh my God, I really didn't see that coming'.
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A home is more than just where you live; it reflects who you are.
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What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
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I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
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Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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What can I say? I feel good when I'm wearing heels. I feel sexier, attractive.
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If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?
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When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
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I try always to intimate with the world… with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.
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Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
