TONY Wilson Musician Quotes
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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I don't have time to be that girl who does the super workout. But I try to be as fit as possible, given my schedule. Even if I do 20 minutes a day, it's better than nothing.
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...
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My father always would say, 'My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister', but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, 'No, Papa, I will never go into politics.' As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.
