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Wild Quotes
For voices too restless to sit still.
These wild quotes capture untamed creative energy — voices and shows too intense to sit through quietly, and an appetite for freedom over convention. The mood overlaps with Crazy quotes, another collection built around living loudly.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.
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- Nov 07, 2020