Kevin Wilson Quotes
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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Too many people go into existing organizations and define success as recreating what is there. To be successful as a startup organization within a large, established culture, you really need to think about how you leverage the assets that are there.
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I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.
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One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.
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Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.
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I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.
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I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
