Brian Wilson Quotes
I think because I felt so sad I had to bring out my feelings, and try to create music that would make me and all my friends feel better.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.
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The sad truth is that the truth is sad.
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I think because I felt so sad I had to bring out my feelings, and try to create music that would make me and all my friends feel better.
