Dar Williams Quotes
But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
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I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
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I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.
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If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.
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I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.
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But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.
