Dan Wilson (Daniel Dodd Wilson) Quotes

In my ideal writing environment, I'd be surrounded by nice visual art in a room with a window and high ceilings. The window would have to give me natural light.

Dan Wilson

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• Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Color
  • Blind

• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Charming

• Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
  • Evil
  • Justice

• Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Learning

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Great
  • Friends

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema, they care only about their hero, who is God.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • God
  • Women
  • Hero

• There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Past
  • Balance
  • Mistakes

• Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

  

  Sam Weller
  • House
  • Small
  • California

• History will treat me right.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Right
  • Treat

• I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Beauty

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Art
  • Value

• I was obsessed with Lil' Bow Wow growing up, and you couldn't see the white of my walls because they were plastered with his photos. This is even more embarrassing: I had a notebook full of facts about Bow Wow and different pictures. I basically made a biography notebook about him and his life when he was, like, 13.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Generations

• We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Women
  • Literature
  • See

• I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Hurt

• Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

  

  Barney Frank
  • America
  • True
  • King

• 'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Single

• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Society
  • Process
  • Reflect

• In my ideal writing environment, I'd be surrounded by nice visual art in a room with a window and high ceilings. The window would have to give me natural light.

  

  Dan Wilson
  • Writing
  • Light
  • Environment