Angus Wilson Quotes
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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The young woman had turned toward him and thrust her pink gloves up in the air in a gesture that, from a man, meant 'Touchdown!' and, from a woman, 'I will hug you now!'
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
