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.
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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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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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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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I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
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Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
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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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Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
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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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I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
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I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.
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It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.
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The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.
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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.
