William B. Munro Quotes
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.
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I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
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I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.
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People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
