TONY Wilson Musician Quotes
I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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The moment people talk of 'implementing' instead of 'doing,' and of 'finalizing' instead of 'finishing,' the organization is already running a fever.
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
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In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
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I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.
