Jayson Williams Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
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I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.
