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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A will finds a way.
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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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We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
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You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?
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Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.
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A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
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I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
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People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
