Will Davis Campbell Quotes
I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
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Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
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That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.
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I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.
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No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
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I'm really a normal person.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.
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In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
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I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.
