Paul Williams Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
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If you want to see how a hybrid stands up, this is the place to be.
