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
authority federal level
Someone at the federal level should have that authority.
advice afraid demeanor focus good hard help knows kyle position somebody speak trying
Kyle has the right demeanor where he can focus on what he has to focus on. He's not afraid to speak up at all. It's hard to distinguish between what is really good advice and when somebody is just trying to help their own position out. He knows that.
healthy intelligence looked naturally regarded reports skepticism until
Most intelligence reports are naturally regarded with healthy skepticism until they're vetted and looked into.
equal heard last people tendency whatever
People have a tendency to regurgitate whatever they've last heard and to give equal credence to untruths as they do to truths.
guys hitters problem
We were told to be aggressive. That's the way a lot of our hitters hit. We didn't have a lot of guys that walked. No one ever had a problem with it.
hidden risk
We don't need another Teflon-like hidden risk at DuPont.
biggest experience game home road
You'd like to have (experience), but it's not necessary. The biggest thing we have is having the home game because going on the road and being inexperienced can be more difficult. But you can do it on the road, too, with no experience. I thought the whole experience thing was overrated, but I just wanted to play.
radio thought-of-the-day easy
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
thinking church loyal
I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
people done research
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
education circles intellectual
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
self upper-class towns
I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
thinking opposites history
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
views newspapers
In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.