Ethel Wilson Quotes
A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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Okay, roll-call, no talking. Benny, Marc; Ethel, Shakina, nice shoes. Bobo twins, anyone seen the Bobo twins? Those Bobo twins.11
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.
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I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.
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Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism.
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I'm not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I'll accept that. But I'm not a complete psychopath.
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I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
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You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
