Paul Williams Quotes
Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music at the same time, I usually finish the music rather quickly.
Quotes to Explore
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.
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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
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As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
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Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music at the same time, I usually finish the music rather quickly.
