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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Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.
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It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
