Tony Wilson Quotes

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

Tony Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 20, 1950 - August 10, 2007

Topics

GoodGreatMeTelevisionSaidNever

In Hollywood, normally things don't work out, and dreams are crushed.

Jessica St. Clair

WorkDreamsHollywoodOutThings

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.

Jerry Greenfield

BusinessFaceThinkProblemYouNow

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Andrea Dworkin

WineDifficultBuyBottleSeduction

On college campuses, in newsrooms, and now in the highest corridors of power, with Barack Obama in the Oval Office, the politically correct Left is wielding its weaponry with the confidence that it can take down any group, anyone, or anything.

Andrew Breitbart

ConfidencePowerCollegeDownGroup

My agents usually get a breakdown of all the projects that are out there. When I got 'Divergent,' they hadn't finished the script. They knew they wanted the leader of the Dauntless to have a certain demeanor and energy. They had me read a short monologue, and I got the part.

Mekhi Phifer

LeaderMeEnergyShortOutGet

I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.

Stephan James

ExperienceSchoolTrainPlayAble

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Ross Lovegrove

CreativityProcessJudgeYouEarly

I'm obsessed with reality TV anyway - I use my knowledge of that stuff to make jokes on Twitter and Facebook to get more people to sign up to be fans.

Lisa Lampanelli

KnowledgePeopleRealityMoreJokes

I think I'd want Tommen'to fight the Hound! And the Mountain! The Hound and the Mountain on one side, and Tommen on the other side. That would be so sick. Tommen would smash it!

Dean-Charles Chapman

MountainFightSickThinkWantSide

When I was at Marvel, they were in bankruptcy, which is hard to believe now with 'Avengers 2' out, but it was during the 1990s. It was a troubled place. Comic book sales were dropping. Work was scattered.

Chris Renaud

WorkBookBelievePlaceNowSales

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Clare Boothe Luce

FamilyWomenMenSpiritualLong

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Bob Uecker

ServiceBaseballNeverOutAnything

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