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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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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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
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If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
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It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.
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If you want to see how a hybrid stands up, this is the place to be.
