Colin Wilson Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
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Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.
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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
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The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of nature by experiment and observation. But there was another feature of the new science-a dependence on numbers, on real numbers of actual experience.
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The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint.
