Angus Wilson Quotes
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People always want to doubt you.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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There is no truly global justice.
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In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?
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I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.
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Long hours of labour seem to be the secret of the rational and healthful processes, which are to raise the condition of the labourer by an improvement of his mental and moral powers and to make a rational consumer out of him.
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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The roots of art and play lie very close together.
