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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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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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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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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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
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One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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You have to think like a businessman or a businesswoman, and I can't wait to continue to grow, as an actress, but to also continue to grow as a brand and show people that I have so much more to offer.
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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.
