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Wonder Quotes
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
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"I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet."
"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"
"With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext."
"We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?"
"We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing."
"I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know."
"If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder."
"Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know."
"Expect to wonder to find wonder."
"When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside."
"And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery."
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."
"You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides."
"Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is."
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."
"I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?"
"I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free."
"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
"They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"
"I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'."
"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me."
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
"I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do."
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