#her

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#astonishing #black #few #go #green

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bedroom #big #breakfast #day #even

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#band #breaks #chains #dies #like

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone. ↗

— August Wilson

#between #calendar #every #find #focus

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else. ↗

— August Wilson

#document #else #historical #i #me

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband. ↗

— Bridgette Wilson

#crazy #done #finds #husband #i

I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#going #i #keep #life #mother

I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#children #decided #either #family #got