Ian Williams Quotes
There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
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Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
