A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson
Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and former columnist for the London Evening Standard, and has been an occasional contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 October 1950
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I thought we would play better. I don't know if it's the stigma about their personnel, the status of what they've got. I don't know if that affects us or not. We feel like we can play with them, yet it hasn't happened.
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I think the people we are counting on to step up will be ready to go.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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Everyone has been very willing to help these people, ... Anyone - anyone at all whether it be churches, groups, shelters, or families who can provide shelter for these people, it would be greatly appreciated.
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It goes back to the (fact that the) market is confused. This will be the best looking earnings report of the quarter of any builder.
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We are excited to have John attend the event, ... It gives local people an opportunity to meet him in an informal setting and getting to know John is getting to appreciate what an outstanding premier he can be for our province.
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Aberdeen likes to the work the ball, there were times when we were on defense for a minute and a half in the first half. But we didn't give up any back doors or any open shots - we were really patient hence the score was so low.
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The market may push higher again. A little bit of month-end buying should help bonds.
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I didn't know what I saw -- swamp gas, space ship, sundog, weather balloon. What impressed me was my parents' fear of reporting the sighting. I realized that even in our allegedly rational age many things remain unspeakable -- damned, blasphemous. George Carlin can't do his comedy on networks because the comedy depends on taboo words. We remain governed by taboo to an astounding extent.
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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.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.