Joy Williams Quotes
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.
Quotes to Explore
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
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Nowadays, people have an open mind vis-a-vis new artists like Meghan Trainor, Nico & Vinz, Hozier - there are hits coming out of everywhere.
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I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.
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My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
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I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
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I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.
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You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.
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If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.
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When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
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I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
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I'm a strong believer that if you score goals, you win matches.
