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 have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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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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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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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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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Lots of people juggle a lot of things in their personal and private lives, and I'm not unusual in that. Plenty of women have multitasked before me, and I want to acknowledge that.
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If you want to see how a hybrid stands up, this is the place to be.
