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.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• Prayer is man's greatest power!

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Power
  • Man
  • Prayer

• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Question
  • Two
  • Sides

• I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• 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.

  

  M. Ward
  • Good
  • American
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Language

• Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Sweet

• 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.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Small
  • Understanding
  • Emotional

• It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Satisfied

• I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Spontaneous

• 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.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • God
  • Humanity

• My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life

• This is the essential importance of the Alliance for Better Campaigns' efforts backed by Common Cause. It is our campaign to give free time to all legitimate candidates. … What our campaign asks is that the television industry yield just a tiny percentage of that windfall, less than 1 percent, to fund free airtime.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Free

• Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Words

• I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

  

  Lukas Foss
  • Words
  • Study

• Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Inspiration
  • Shows
  • Comments

• Pink is like the one color I say I hate, and yet somehow I end up wearing it. Like, Michael Kors sent me a pink dress, and I'm like: 'So beautiful!' And I'm wearing it telling him 'I hate pink, why am I wearing this? It's really nice though.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • Up
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
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  • Icarus