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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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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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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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
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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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There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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We like to think that we are stronger than our compulsions. But when time after time we can't break a habit we so badly want to eliminate, we begin to realize that maybe our will power and self control aren't as strong as we thought they were. Maybe we are just as weak as everybody else.
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Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.
