Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
builds image inside maybe periods tension time via work
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
guild member subversive
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.
carefully paragraph
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
avoided bladder expensive negative people require test treated
This will be an important test in detecting recurrence of bladder cancer, ... People who have been treated now require years of expensive follow-up. If that could be avoided by having one negative telomerase test, the test would be worthwhile. Right now we are not able to do that with any other test.
affected best conserve directly energy governor interest request
We need to do all that we can to conserve energy in accordance with the request from the governor and in the best interest of those directly affected by the hurricane,
band beauty core played situations solid throw
I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.
next
I don't like knowing what the next song is because that's what I'd think about during the number we're playing.
born forth resembles sitting springs
Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.
anyone few
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
theory
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.
great hoped miss time
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for, ... But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
sexy jesus faithful
He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.” “Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so many of the faithful who’re armed.