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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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
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... a bland Jesus who simply told people to look at the lilies of the field - such a Jesus would threaten no one, just as the university professors who created him threaten no one.
