Colin Wilson Quotes
The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I want to have a long career.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
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Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on.
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There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
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We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.
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The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
