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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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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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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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
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I don't think anyone could play me. It would have to be me.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
