Jayson Williams Quotes
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.
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I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
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The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.
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I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my family, came completely out of the blue after 59 years on this earth with no issues that we knew about, at least - sort of a normal run-of-the-mill guy who did his job and came home and had a family.
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Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.
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I have a beautiful family. I want to be here, for my family.
