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It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.


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PATRICK WILSON The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
PATRICK WILSON If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for ...
PATRICK WILSON I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She e...
PATRICK WILSON There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
PATRICK WILSON When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing...
PATRICK WILSON I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
PATRICK WILSON If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-...
PATRICK WILSON The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When y...
PATRICK WILSON I'm an early-morning owl.
PATRICK WILSON I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
JOE WILSON Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact t...
WOODROW WILSON