Angus Wilson Quotes
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
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Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.
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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
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To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.
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The substance of painting is light.
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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
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You might think being the target of an international terrorist organization, an amnesiac, and a girl with hair dyed in the middle of the night by Macey McHenry would make people stare at you. Well, try walking into the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands. With a boy.
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Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.
