Wil Haygood Quotes
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
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I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.
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It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.
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I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me
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Very quickly, kids take your plan and say, 'Ha!' so you have to learn to be adaptable, or you will be literally miserable.
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Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
