#view

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#am #apparent #apparent failure #back #been

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#any #audiences #because #being #convey

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#did #know #little #millions #people

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#confirmed #economics #everyman #history #joyce

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#big business #both #business #correct #government

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#bad men #believe #doing #good #indulge

Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production. ↗

— Kip Winger

#envelope #good #good records #grew #i

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#because #book #change #i #late