Patrick Wilson Quotes
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.
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Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
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One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
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The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
