George Wither Quotes
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.
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Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.
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Night begins to muffle up the day.
