Jessica Williams Quotes
People have their guard down when they're laughing, so they're open to tougher conversations they wouldn't necessarily have. If somebody is guarded while laughing, they're a weirdo.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.
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I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.
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Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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People have their guard down when they're laughing, so they're open to tougher conversations they wouldn't necessarily have. If somebody is guarded while laughing, they're a weirdo.
