Paul Williams Quotes
The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in
Quotes to Explore
-
Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
-
Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
-
I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
-
I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
-
From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
-
It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
-
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
-
I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
-
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
-
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
-
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
-
I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
-
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
-
We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
-
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
-
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
-
We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
-
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
-
My focus is basketball, and that's it.
-
It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
-
I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
-
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
-
Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
-
The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in
