Alan Wilson Quotes
Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!
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You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
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I train to fight, to win.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.
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Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.
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That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
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Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you.
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
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One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.
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The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
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Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.
