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I had tremendous family support, and I had the drive to say, 'I don't want to be strapped in a wheelchair all my life.' I lost my legs in February and played my first nine holes of golf that June.


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MARA WILSON I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've b...
MARA WILSON People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison ...
MARA WILSON My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting wa...
MARA WILSON I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Ho...
MARA WILSON I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed imag...
MARA WILSON I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
ANN WILSON My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on ...
RUSSELL WILSON You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the b...
WOODROW WILSON I believed that I could go to the Super Bowl and win multiple Super Bowls and do all of those things...
RUSSELL WILSON I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little sc...
REBEL WILSON Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ...
COLIN WILSON Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
SANDY WILSON No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi...
WOODROW WILSON Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox kn...
COLIN WILSON If you steal from one author, its plagiarism. If you steal from two, its research.
WILSON MIZNER The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or any...
DENNIS WILSON Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got g...
DENNIS WILSON The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and def...
WOODROW WILSON