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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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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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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I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
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You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
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I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.
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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.
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History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
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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.
