Wilbur L. Creech Quotes
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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No man fails who does his best.
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
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I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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A major figure of Croatia and the Balkans has disappeared. We have to hope that the elections that will now take place in Croatia ... will help Croatia in the direction of a democratic country.
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This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
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Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.
