Jayson Williams Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Language is the house of the truth of Being.
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Vindication? Oh, my God, absolutely. When you're attacked mercilessly for illogical and unpatriotic reasons, to be honored by Emmy voters in this way is just phenomenal.
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I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm a crappy parent, then I need the government involved.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.
