Patrick Wilson Quotes
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
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I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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People have to do what they want to do.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
