Angus Wilson Quotes
People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.
Quotes to Explore
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.
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In other words, it is my view that the brain is preprogrammed to feel good (i.e., to seek a sense of well-being/gratification). This is what I term the gratification principle. This usually occurs as the result of instinctive salient/relevant acts or what we normatively decide are salient/relevant acts.
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'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
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We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
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People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.
