Ward McAllister Quotes
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.
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I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
